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Hello TAY. Someone bring me my hot orange chocolate. Muggins here left it at home 🙁
I would, but I saw it sitting there and drank it. Sorry bout that. 🙁
dagnabbit 🙁
I don’t know what Battleblock Theatre is but then I saw this trailer and then I bought it.
Probably has one of the most delightful and funny narrators in a game in a long time. I haven’t laughed as much since the commentators in Madworld.
I bought it too, saw @greenius wanted it, so I bought the 2-pack and gifted him a copy.
You are the most generous notsoevilmonkey ever.
It’s more fun when you share :p
I was sending that trailer to everyone last night 😀
Wasn’t sent to me
:'(
Or me.
Morning TAY!
So, now that I’ve got new headphones (thanks @aliasalpha!) I can move on my Turtle Beach XP7s to a new home. Around a year old, though not used constantly, in fact over time I stopped using them unless I needed a mic. Still in excellent condition, and in box with all cables and accessories. Woo.
Why get rid of them? I just found them too complicated for my needs. These aren’t “plug in and forget it” headphones, they’re designed with gaming audio enthusiasts in mind and as much as I thought “wow these features sound great, I’d love to use them!” I just didn’t. Had I known that at the start I wouldn’t have bought them. So forewarned is forearmed!
But if you’re looking for a set of PC/PS3/360/I assume PS4/XBone (via TOSLINK) headphones which give you a huge level of granular control and multiple outputs (Game/Chat) to the one headset, you’ll probably be quite happy.
They’re going for around $150+postage on eBay in similar to lesser condition, I’d let it go to TAY for $125. Anybody interested?
I do wish my sennheiser PC360s had the option of leather ear pads, I do rather miss that option
So much for not buying much in the steam sale, wolf among us is 66% off. Hopefully its not the start of a trend.
Anyone here got Door Kickers? I’m thinking of buying that before the sale ends, any glaring problems with it?
Wolf Among Us is well worth the full price so at that sale price its a steal.
Some research on Door Kickers says at the moment gameplay is very basic and missing a lot of features.
I’ve watched a few vids of door kickers from a guy who I know is into heavy tactical stuff and he seems to enjoy it but videos don’t really give you a good window into any little frustrations the game might have every so often
I went to buy The Walking Dead Season 2 the other day (even thought I’ve already got it on 360), and just went screw it, and bought the whole freakin’ Telltale pack, so much adventure gaming goodness, It’s a shame though that I couldn’t gift the extra copies of Sam & Max as I already had all 3 seasons.
I didn’t even realize it was on sale until reading this comment! So going to grab it now >.<
*looks at wallet*….. *cries*
Hey man, what’s your Steam ID? Haven’t been able to find it on TAYnames.
my kotaku name with 007 at the end!
Sweet! Added you, now you just have to accept my FR.
Also, you on the green team too. GOOOOOO TEEEEEAAAMMMM!!!! \o/
Yeah, I picked it up too. I was largely unimpressed with what I played of the first chapter, but since I liked The Walking Dead I figure a $9 gamble is worth it and won’t leave me short even if disappointed in the end.
I’m gonna wait and see if Door Kickers pops up in a flash sale or something.
The other advantage of buying it on PC is that it’s a platform that Telltale can actually code for (or which is powerful enough to compensate for them not being very good at coding) so you don’t have 5 second loading breaks in action scenes when you press a button like in the 360 version
“Look out, he’s swinging a lamp at your head, press X quick!”
*Presses X*
“Oh shit, you pressed X, I wasn’t ready for that! Err… where did I put that animation? I know it’s here somewhere…”
I just watched Captain Phillips. Even though I’m familiar with the story and knew what was going to happen by the final scene I may have cried a manly tear or two. That was a well put together movie.
My weekend summarized
“OH MAN A LEATHER JACKET I’VE TOTALLY WANTED ONE FOREVER THIS LOOKS GREAT ON ME”
Family: “It looks bad on you, Saturday.”
Co-workers: “It looks bad on you, Saturday.”
Friend: “You look like shit.”
Me: “Everybody said that about my jacket.”
Friend: “What? No, the jacket looks good, your face looks like shit.”
Get a second leather jacket to wear over you face! That solved the same problem for me!
Has anyone here put together an arcade cab from scratch? I’m looking at building a Street Fighter II machine for the man cave in my new house and need some opinions.
I know a guy who has, what exactly did you want an opinion about? I might remember a few things
Any reason it’s a specific Street Fighter 2 machine rather than a multi-game machine that can play SF2? Are you planning to be all boring and legal about it?
I suppose I could go for a MAME machine, but I’m a collector so I’d love to get my hands on some classics PCBs. I mainly want to weigh up the cost of build v pre-fab,
having built a mame cab it’s not that pricey I found that getting the woodwork and vinyls to be finished and looking good was trickier. I also suck at electronics despite some weird obsession with trying to be good at them. I had some mates build a nice interface for loading and game select menus though so was pretty happy with the end result. You could run off a laptop nowadays with one of those usb monitors making the weight more accessible.
Repost from previous TAY. Thank you so much to those of you who have already voted, I appreciate it more than you know.
I usually hate doing this, but I need your help. If you’ve got Facebook, please click the link below and vote for Harley Quinn. It’s not often you get the chance to play a show with your favourite band, but I have that chance here.
https://www.facebook.com/events/596132357174076/permalink/599023756884936/
Already done my friend.
You da best.
Spoilers working? No
Also for those on archaic IE 7, has Kotaku changed for anyone else or is it just me? The boxes and format are kinda screwy for me today.
Spoilers haven’t worked for ages, God knows what the problem is, but we’ve all just been using http://www.rot13.com
Yeah I was just double-checking to see if they’ve come back on as my Kotaku seems to have changed around a bit. It might be one of these days that it gets fixed and no one knows about it because we’ve all be ROT13’ing everything.
Morning all. How was your weekend. I planned on playing all teh gamez, but most of the time all I did was spend money on the Steam Sale. Spent soooo much money, so much money.
DAMN YOU GABE, DAMN YOU TO HELL.
<3
Your helping a Noble cause, getting your team points so you have a 30 in probably 500000 chance of getting 3 games on your wish list for free \o/
Yeah, Green team won by a mile yesterday, but I wasn’t one of the 30 winners 🙁
So I came down sick Saturday night. I should’ve been in bed resting, but instead I was doing stuff.
I’m the worst.
Wasn’t it Saturday night I was talking to you on steam? I’m sorry!!
You didn’t give me a cold through the internet. Duh =P I enjoyed the chat
Have you never heard of getting viruses over the internet? I feel so guilty!!
Wrong type of virus =P I’m not a robot like Techie.
Hey Scree, I was looking up on stock and the store nearest to me apparently doesn’t have stock left on that card. I’ll be calling them up to find out where their stock is currently sitting and if I can either get it sent to the nearest store to me or if I can reserve one for pickup elsewhere. It won’t be impossible but it will be a chore to get to the other stores near to me. I’ll keep you posted 🙂
If it’s a chore, don’t put yourself out. I can wait 2 weeks until I get paid and get it posted
Problem is that looking at MSY’s site the stock they have is low, as in dangerously low you might have to end up eBaying it. I could pay for it and get it delivered to you or something. You’re usually at home yeah?
Yes, i am. We’re busy this week because of things, but if we’re not home, My brother is.
Alright I should be able to get it delivered to you, just to make it nice and easy, I’ll chat to you more on Steam about it tonight when I get home
Thank you, you really didn’t have to, but I appreciate it
Good morning TAY. Two major things to report from this weekend.
1 – I finished XCOM:EU and bloody hell was the last battle tough. The short version is: I was down to one guy at 2 HP, and I finished it off with a rocket to the guy’s face, it was all decided after the guy missed me… good times 🙂
2 – I have made a start on the Witcher 2. I was going in expecting it to look good but HOLY CRAP! And it runs smoothly on my PC as well on High settings. I was having some weird clipping like my pants showing through my boots in a cutscene but other than that I’ve been having a lot of fun. The combat, way more enjoyable than the first Witcher’s rhythm style :). I’ve had a few crashes in the first few hours though, sadly :(, but so far the game itself has been enjoyable. Also, this world is really really weird in some places, where for the dark and dirty style of towns/society most of the women look uncharacteristically attractive while the males are mostly ugly cockney brutes 😛
Yeah get used to that with the Witcher…. Almost all of the main female characters you interact with are ridiculously attractive =,= And always seem to have ridiculous amounts of cleavage! What difficulty are you playing the game on? (confession I’ve never gotten past Flotsam) And if you’re playing on normal or higher how are you combating large groups of enemies? The damn nekkers killed me like 7 times in my first run in with them >.< Also have you (slight side quest spoiler for flotsam) orra gb gur Unhagrq Nflyhz fvqr dhrfg lrg?
In regards to the graphical issues I have them too, and I also get the odd minuscule thin black lines through some characters during cutscenes!\
Edit: Get my message on Uplay from the ubisoft forums as to why I needed to re-install HoMM?
I find that the first part of the game requires a fair chunk of just exploration and dare I say a little grinding so that you don’t get absolutely destroyed by taking on the bounties. I think my go-to strategy for the nekkers was setting up traps and using bombs to take out large groups of them.
I didn’t really have too many graphical issues but I do recall a few mesh effects coming off a bit incorrectly. If you haven’t gotten it already, there is a patch of Projekt Red’s website that improves the game a bit although I’m pretty sure that was included in the EE version of the game.
Yeah I’ve basically been Quen kiting them… goddamit they’re annoying, however once I set up sword upgrades and armor enhancements from the non-combat quests the fights became a lot easier! I think I was getting smashed because I tried to do the quest with the cave full of nekkers at like level 4 or 5 =p Actually managed to clear them but dear god did it take a lot of running around with potions and poison…. If I’d had an audience of villagers it would’ve totally killed the image of a “monster slayer” >.<
Question for all the Witcher 2 vets, is there a point in holding on to the hundreds of nekker and endrega parts (i.e. eyes, teeth, jaws, etc) I seem to have? And how much leather and iron ore should I keep in stock (shit weighs a ton!)? Worth noting I collect herbs like crazy so I'm not sure I'll need the parts for potions, just wondering if there's recipes in the future where I'll need them?
If they’re miscellaneous, sell that crap straight away. If you find you’re still encumbered and not sure if you will need it later (like ore and other alchemical stuff), stick it in the storage at the inn. I believe (not 100% certain) that it’s a persistent item storage same as in the first game but you should probably double-check that.
I didn’t realize there was a storage chest….. *facepalm* Ok I’m going to stop selling my ingredients and materials now =p
I’ve mainly been selling excess weapons/clothing I pick up and anything labelled “Junk”
I got recommended Easy so I’m playing on Easy :P. Still going through the first area.
V’z fgvyy whfg qbvat fvqr dhrfgf bhgfvqr Sybgfnz ngz, qrnyvat jvgu jungrire pbzrf zl jnl. Jura vg pbzrf gb gur arxxref, lbh gel gb fvatyr gurz bhg naq vs gurl fjnez lbh, ebyy bhg bs gurer orpnhfr lbh pna rnfvyl trg fgha ybpxrq. Gur jubyr cbvag vf abg trg pbzcyrgryl fheebhaqrq naq gel gb gnxr gurz bar ng n gvzr. Cneelvat vf n sevpxra zhfg nf jryy V’ir sbhaq naq V’ir tbggra gur “Cneel sebz nal qverpgvba” srng jura yriryyvat hc, irel irel hfrshy.
The message i got from you was regarding you needing to reinstall and patch it up yeah? Fine by us as Freeze and I decided to reschedule anyway, better chance for more people to get involved rather than a 1v1.
V gevrq rnfl sbe zl svefg svtug naq sbhaq vg xvyyrq gur pbzong pbzcyrgryl? Onfvpnyyl vg znqr zr vaivapvoyr…. V pbhyq whfg eha va naq fznfu nggnpx naq jnyx njnl jvgubhg qbqtvat be cneelvat! Lbh fubhyq qrsf gel gur arxxre naq raqertn svtugf ba abezny! Nsgre lbh trg gur Nfgebtnehf Nezbe (lbh fubhyq or noyr gb trg vg orsber tbvat gb gur sberfg!) lbh trg n ybg gnaxvre naq pna npghnyyl ubyq lbhe bja va svtugf vaibyivat 3-5 zbof. V svaq ba abezny cneelvat vf n ovg bs n tnzoyr rira jvgu gur nyy qverpgvba crex fvapr lbh fgvyy gnxr fbzr qnzntr naq ba abezny bar uvg sebz n arxxre gnxrf yvxr 10-15% bs lbhe uc >.<… V cersre ebyyvat va naq bhg bs svtugf junpxvat gur zbof n srj gvzrf naq gura ebyyvat bhg ntnva, frg hc n dhra ohss be n genc naq gura ebyy va =c Boivbhfyl guvf gnpgvp trgf zr nofbyhgryl qrpvzngrq va pybfrq bss rapbhagref….
Juvpu dhrfgf/fvqr dhrfgf ner lbh hcgb abj?
Sounds good for HoMM i'll have it re-installed and patched before the next session! =]
V’z nobhg gb pnfu va gur arxxref dhrfg naq univat gebhoyr svaqvat gur ynfg dhrra arfg sbe gubfr oht-yvxr guvatf (Sbetbg gur anzr bs gurz)… naq nyfb jvgu n shyy vairagbel fb nyfb fryyvat fghss. V ybirq ubj V arrqrq gb tb bhg naq ohl 4 obzof gb hfr ba gur arxxre ghaaryf, jnf naablvat gb svaq fbzrbar gung fbyq gur qnea guvatf gubhtu!
Nyfb V zvtug gel hccvat vg gb abezny yngre ohg V qvq trg gebhaprq va gur ghgbevny onggyr grfg, V’z whfg abg hfrq gb gur pbagebyf lrg.
Pbhcyr bs guvatf… Nf cbc unf zragvbarq fgber lbhe fghss va gur purfg gung pna or sbhaq va gur onfrzrag bs gur vaa! Qrsvavgryl ubyq ba gb nyy lbhe Pybgu, Gjvar, Yrngure naq Veba! Lbh trg n erpvcr sbe fbzr ernyyl avpr nezbe nsgre svavfuvat n puhax bs gur znva dhrfg gung erdhverf gbaf bs gurz! (Uvag: Teno gur erpvcrf sbe Uneqrarq Yrngure naq Ebohfg Pybgu sebz gur Zrepunag arne gur cynpr jurer gurl unat crbcyr va gur gbja) Va ertneqf gb oybjvat hc gur Arxxre arfgf jul’q lbh ohl gur obzof? Lbh pna teno gur erpvcr sbe Tencrfubg obzof sebz Prqevp va gur ivyyntr arne gur sberfg! Naq gur vaterqvragf arrqrq gb znxr gurz ner ernyyl ernyyl rnfl gb svaq! Nyfb fnir lbhe Fvyire Ber nf V’z thrffvat vg’yy or arrqrq va shgher puncgref gb pensg n orggre Jvgpure Fjbeq!
Nyfb unir lbh qbar gur svtug pyho dhrfgf? naq gur nez jerfgyvat dhrfgf? Rnfl jnlf gb znxr fbzr zbbynu!
Jvgu gur frpbaq Raqertn Dhrra V oryvrir lbh svaq gur rtt fnpf va gung trareny sberfg jurer lbh sbhaq gur svefg barf, V whfg xrcg ehaavat nebhaq hagvy V pnzr npebff bar naq gur bgure gjb jrer cerggl pybfr gb vg! Vs lbh unir gebhoyr ba abezny jvgu gur pbzong gel sbphffvat ba qbqtvat zber guna cneelvat naq cbgvba cerc orsber rirel svtug! Fjnyybj naq Ebbx ner zhfg unirf orsber nal sbez bs pbzong VZB. Naq gur cbvfbaf uryc n ybg gbb. Fbzrguvat ryfr V yrnearq ol gevny naq reebe vf purpx gur erpvcrf ninvynoyr sbe fnyr sebz rirel. fvatyr. zrepunag. Gurl unir fbzr hfrshy vgrzf/cbgvbaf/gencf/nezbe gung lbh pna’g ohl abeznyyl! Naq ner n ybg purncre gb pensg! Zl svany cvrpr bs nqivpr vf… jura lbh qb gur Znj bs Znqarff dhrfg znxr fher lbh qb vg ynfg bhg bs nyy gur fvqr dhrfgf…
Just thought I’d mention again that I’ve got 2 guest passes for Killing Floor. Who wants ’em?
Edit: Oh, and I’m also now on the Twitters, so if anyone wants to follow me I am ev1lmunky, not that I’ll post a hell of a lot.
Why aren’t you evil monkey anymore?!!? This is unacceptable!
Man, Killing Floor is a rad game. I do miss the vanilla version though.
While I remember for any TAY’s out there I’ve got a gift copy of Warhammer 40k Dawn of War 2 (no expansions) to give, if anyone is interested! I think I got an extra copy when I bought the collection?
It’s pretty good, I’d recommend it. I got about 18 hours in before GFWL f*ked me.
Hola Tay
Had, finally, a quiet weekend. I’ve been on the go for the last month or so, so having a weekend free has been novel.
Went to a friend’s house Friday to sit in on his D&D (4e) game, he is on placement in NSW so has a drop-in drop-out game he DMs whenever he’s back. Good fun, played a Tiefling Warlord. I got dropped to zero hit points once, but got up and rolled pretty consistently well so stayed in the fight, after blowing pretty much all my healing ability on myself.
Saturday lunch went out for my Grandfather’s 85th. Most of my family is O/S atm- there’s me and one cousin left here in SA, and so I was pretty much the sole representative of his kids. I did get to chat to two of his siblings who were there, which was nice, although one wasn’t “chatty”- he’s had a traecheotomy. All in all, a nice lunch.
Sunday, played Saints Row IV. I’m really enjoying the superheroics.
A Monday Morning Question: What is your favourite method of healing in games? Do you like regenerating health, or health packs? Do you just prefer guzzling painkillers?
I liked the way Halo did it with two levels of health, one small but regenerating, the other larger but requiring health packs to replenish if that gets hit.
Witcher-style healing is pretty cool in that you go in and must win with what you have prepared beforehand. Very tactical style.
On the flip side though, I like the old type of healing in FPSs with finding health packs and stuff like that. Hardest difficulty on the original Medal of Honour was nailbiting at times as you were constantly scrounging for health packs and surviving by the skin of your teeth.
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Neither. Your health is your health and if you want to die less you should find some body armour!
I think Halo is a good example of a decent (I’m yet to see something I’d call favourite) system: regening shields, old school health kits.
Spayce Maureen. Healing through head stomping
PILLS HERE!
I dunno, they all seem to have advantages and disadvantages it seems…
The ARMA 2 ACE medical system, You get shot you need bandages, morphine & sometimes epinephrine, if you’re not bandaged you bleed out and die, you can pass out from pain and need to be revived by a teammate or you can be instantly killed by a solid shot to a critical area or a major trauma like an explosion. Looking forward to it’s implementation in 3 (though hopefully with a bit more complexity, have to apply bandages to body parts rather than characters in general for example, it’d make medics more fun to play).
Sod T-1000 style regeneration, bugger bandages that are basically borg nanotechnology and screw painkillers that somehow plug up bullet wounds, give me something that at least feels remotely realistic (even if its not even vaguely real, it at least pretends to try to be).
Only Warhammer I’ve played is a bit of Spaysh Maureen, Not really into strategy games though, so I think I’ll pass.
Edit: Replyfail, meant to be a reply to @pupp3tmast3r
DoW2 is squad-based tactical, not RTS. Campaign you control a maximum of 4 units/squads at a time. It’s a hell of a lot of fun, too.
Let fly!
What Rize said, also most of the maps or missions on Dawn of War 2 take about 15min to complete? They made the game with bite sized play sessions in mind as opposed to the 30-45min games you’d have in traditional RTS’s.
I guess in reality Dawn of War 2 plays more like an RPG, since you get a fixed squad that you can level and equip and don’t really get into any kind of base building or unit building during missions!
Flamethrowers are a lot of fun to use in DoW2 😀
Unit building does come into play in the Retribution expansion but they’re all from the same building, the HQ/Strategic points
Really? Maybe I was really slow and built my guys wrong, but missions would take about 50 minutes. Maybe I just used Cyrus’s slow stealth stuff too much.
Is that the scout guy? I never used him in my teams =,= Ever! He’s way too squishy… You want to use your commander + jetpack + heavy machine gunner guy. The last one can be anyone but the scout =p
I always found that jetpack guy was just a reskin of my main character with a jetpack. I already had a tank, why would I need him?
EDIT: Plus, Cyrus could blow up the entire enemy base without alerting the enemies if you leveled him right!
It’s more of a strategy/action-RPG hybrid. The best part of your game is leveling your guys and getting sweet loot.
So that game of ORION Dinosaur Hunter last night was surprisingly fun. Basically Killing Floor with open maps and dinosaurs instead of
zombiesspecimens.Also, for those that missed out: there was 4 of you, you could have created a second lobby…
Yes, I realize that now, next time Gadget, next time.
It’s definitely worth a go. My favourite highlights would have been when I nearly killed half the team by ramming a triceratops with a jeep (they were in it with me), when @freezespreston got eaten by a T-Rex, when I drove a jeep off a cliff and got it stuck halfway down in a tree, and when @tigerion died on the back of a stegosaurus and I knocked his corpse into the distance by ramming it with a jeep when I tried to revive him.
I should not be allowed near jeeps.
I rammed a Stegosaurus with a tank and the tank blew up…
Oh yeah, and I ran around knifing velociraptors because smrt.
Any word on whether there is another mode that allows for more people? It’d be good if we could all be in the same game.
Not that I can find online. I’ll have to jump in the game and poke around, I think. Based on the size of the maps we played last night surely the PvP stuff lets you have more.
Some of you might have noticed gifts in the last 24 hours, I had extras in my inventory and simply looked at who had those games on their wish list. Enjoy to those people 🙂
Thanks GC
@evilmonkey Forgot to say, thanks for the game!
No worries man. Hope you enjoy it.
Tried to obtain normal sleeping hours. But nooooooooooooo. I had to go and wake up for no reason some time around 4:30, then be unable to get back to sleep til nearly 6. Stupid retarded body.
So I played some tabletop 40K on the weekend. I have never actually played 40K or any other wargaming before in my life as I’ve merely watched friends duke it out. I borrowed some of my friend’s Khorne Berserkers and had a kill team match followed by a 500 point 2v2. It was pretty great as I was pretty noob at it and even my friends who were experienced were still getting used to the 7th codex changes so the skill difference wasn’t that large to be infuriating.
The highlight was when my five Khorne ‘zerkers deployed with a Rhino in the kill team match against plague marines and I botched up my deployment and didn’t deploy them inside the Rhino. So I had to do a mad sprint across open ground with everything and I successfully tank-shotted a plague marine wielding a plasma gun with my Rhino. He had to roll a 3+ to damage the Rhino and he had a reroll available. He rolled two 2s and the plague marine went splat. \o/
Really that feels about right for Khorne, solid tactics are less important to them than bushy tailed enthusiasm. Admittedly that bushy tail is usually drenched in blood and random body parts but that’s just part of the fun. Besides, deploying inside a rhino depending on the opening range, can be a bit dangerous if the opponent has AT weapons, you can lose your entire unit with one lucky shot. I find armour more useful as mobile cover and for providing suppression & supporting fire.
In the Epic scale Space Marine game, I once lost almost an entire Deathwing terminator company because I deployed them in their Land Raiders and my opponent got a lucky series of shots with his ork gargants. I did get my own back and barraged the shit out of them with most of my heavy weapons to drop their shields and it was one of my few surviving terminators who got the astonishingly lucky kill shot on the reactor of one so he avenged his fallen brothers.
My friends who were playing are more in the “play to have fun” or “roleplay” camp of 40K rather than the intense, super strategy type of players. So they have had similar things happen and it does make the game more fun when playing.
It got to the stage where people were asking me if I was sure I wanted to charge ‘zerkers into a near full squad of space marines and I said yes because retreat was not Khorny enough. 😛
I feel if I ever got into playing the game fully, I would probably play Orks just to mess around.
Oh hey the othersite stories have reappeared a the bottom of the page again too.
All they have to do now is fix the spoiler tags and we’re back to normal, and it’s only taken them how long.
I have a really cool weekend, went to see a play yesterday and it was all in Italian and i realized just how much Italian i can pick up on when needed. It makes me wanna be in a musical production, too bad my voice is rubbish. Maybe as a extra or a lighting guy. WHO KNOWS
On Saturday, I painted a bit and man that shit is relaxing. Also my fine motor skills mean that i can paint in the lines so my stuff doesnt look rubbish 🙂
Last night we had our group thing we do every week and played Mario Kart and Mario Bros Wii. My girlfriends best friend is so competitive and it turns me competitive because I dont want her to win. She is making me a shittier person but regardless it was still fun
@blaghman AUGUST I AM COMING TO CANBERRA, GIVE ME A WEEKEND AND ILL BOOK TICKETS. ALSO LADYFRIEND WANTS TO COME IF THATS OKAY???
I was in musicals in HS.
If you’re enthusiastic, and have the time, I’m sure you can jag a role in the chorus. It’s good fun, just a big time investment.
In highschool i played some lead roles in some productions. My best friend and I played Sherlock and Watson in a play and it was the best thing ever. But my voice has changed a bit and i cant really sing any more.
Oh, my singing is awful. I mainly jagged roles by being one of the few males who’d get involved in the school production (To all the knobs I went to school with who thought being in the school production was “gay”: Where do you think all the women went at lunch time?)
I was President Roosevelt in Annie, then the Spock-equivalent in a crappy Star Trek satire that was on during ear 12, which had a solo show opener that I inflicted on people.
Spock… ear 12… I geddit!
I was in a few musicals in High School. Mostly in the band, but for the last one, I auditioned for a part and got it. I played King Louis XIII in a comedy version of the Three Musketeers (plus the Duke of Buckingham). It was a lot of fun.
Sign up with an amateur group? Start out offering ‘to be a stage hand to prove you’re not a muppet’, then get into Stage Management or Lighting/Props/Sound/whatever! 🙂 I used to act a bit in some amateur stuff but I also took some Stage Manager gigs and they were pretty good/stressful/fun.
I ran a sound board for one in year 8, good skill to pick up
Go for gold, be an extra lighting guy!
I did musicals is HS also, background characters in Oliver (yr. 7), and a Pirate in Peter Pan, who I traded off on the role with a friend (yr. 11), I was a poorly accented Italian pirate, who did a “Who’s On First” with Hook, who couldn’t differentiate ‘It’s me’ and ‘Smee’, ‘What?’ and ‘Watt’, ‘You’ and ‘Who’ with a crew member named Yu Hu, I also wore a shitty moustache that was spirit gummed to my face, and that shit burns like hell.
Being in a musical or theatre production is great if you ever get a chance to do it. I did 3 revues while I was at university and was in the crew for 2 more. They were Engineering revues, so the acting was terrible, the jokes were in poor taste and the singing was worse – but we had the most awesome sets (…I wonder if the Star Trek doors and the Bar Flat are still in existence…)
Grunt. Too little sleep this week. But I was kind of determined to get a proper weekend’s ration of ‘fun’, when boring unfun things like inspections and entry condition reports robbed me of valuable fun hours. This was a dumb decision. 😛
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Unrelated:TOTALLY related: Tried some Wildstar on the weekend. Sooo… IMPROMPTU WILDSTAR REVIEW!I spent the first day of playing it fighting off an impending sense of buyer’s remorse.
It’s… not fantastic. I mean… it’s good, and that’s nothing to sneeze at. Maybe even ‘very good!’
But… it’s basically WoW2.0 without the 10yrs of investment and I’m kind of over WoW. My bad. And the new WoW expansion with updated models and mechanics and etc are kind of making WoW into WoW2.0 anyway. So Wildstar loses a LOT of novelty value due to just how similar it is. So this is my fault for going into a genre that I’m already burned out on, expecting the novelty to do something for me. And with that factored in, I’d say it’s not worth the current price – or at least, not in my opinion. I’m sure the box price will go down at some point, then I’d consider it decent value for WoW/MMO burnout-victims.
That’s based on first impressions, anyway. MMOs are brain-worms that occasionally need some time to take root. Plus, if you’re not thorough or ‘choose poorly’ in your classes, you can get completely the wrong impression as to how it plays, anyway.
I had to go play all of the character classes for their first 5+ levels or so just to get a feel for how they were going to play minute-by-minute, because the majority of them shat me.
* Warriors use a WoW-style rage mechanic and are similarly slow/low-damage. I’m anticipating decent in dungeons/raids, not great solo/bursting.
* Espers have deliciously high damage output but require you to stand still and have ‘combo points’ that disappear very quickly, which can get real inconvenient. Their ‘special’ gets them to plan their feet, boosting resistances and damages.
* Engineers basic attacks are slow and feature unimpressive damage output – guessing they only start coming into their own with the pet, and some traps and toys to chuck onto the ground. A slower kind of Hunter, perhaps.
* Spell-slingers fit in between the warrior and Esper in terms of damage and mobility, with some stand-still charge attacks – lower-damage/higher-mobility mages, effectively.
* Medics are interestingly mobile and high-damage considering they’re a healer class (and I’ll probably play one of those next), using up ‘charges’ on special abilities and building them back up with builder-attacks.
* Stalkers (WoW rogues without combo points) are basically the bastard offspring of James Bond and Chuck Norris spliced with a velociraptor, one-shotting area-bosses without even using all their resources, so that’s what I’m playing now. Intriguingly, a look down the future skill list shows high-threat/taunt/tanking abilities. Given how often I fall into tanking in MMOs, it’s the perfect fit!
The writing’s good. Enjoyable, even, with the occasional subtle jokes it doesn’t bother to ham up for the camera, just slips it in on the way, and taking the time to read it all is enhancing the experience such that the buyer’s remorse edge is wearing off.
Combine recent access to crafting and discovering new activities in the world, dropping that money on it when things are tight (PC upgrade/moving) it’s starting to feel like less of a bad decision and more of a neutral one.
The only really major turn-off at this point – on its own merits – is when things aren’t explained clearly or feel distinctly like bugs (which is probably to be expected for still being so close to launch), but you just can’t tell. The dissonance comes from their habit of holding your hand to ludicrous lengths for all manner of activities, then randomly not explaining unintuitive shit, which is so inconsistent that it makes me think they did an ‘idiot-proofing’ pass and missed things that they thought were obvious or just ran out of time to finish it.
Either way, the inconsistency results in some head-scratching. It’s a game I’m going to have to play with Google open, just to get over the occasional bone-headed disconnect in unintuitive design. It’s not great if whenever I encounter a stumbling block I have to ask, “Is this a bug, or something that’s not implemented well?” and go ask The Internet.
But given that this is the only major complaint I have so far (apart from some boring classes), if you aren’t burned out on MMOs, Wildstar would be an excellent choice. I’d totally recommend it as someone’s first MMO.
Unrelated/kinda related, entry condition reports are a pain in the arse. And yet if you screw it up when doing it, it comes back to bite you years later when they try and charge for extra cleaning or repairs or other BS.
I’ve been a few places where I’ve really had to fight to get my bond back. Against owners who consider that a tenant’s bond is a pool of funds that they’re entitled to dip into to repair things they would otherwise have to pay for themselves, which definitely fall under the ‘fair wear and tear’ category of the tenancy agreement.
I’m not 100%, but I think this is why I wasn’t drawn in. I could see that it was decent, but…I’ve kind of done it all before.
Wasn’t helped much that I’m playing SWTOR and when you then try to play an MMO without voice acting everywhere it’s a little disappointing.
That’s the thing I’ve found with MMOs in general lately. The games that have drawn me in are sufficiently different from WoW to justify it, whether it be voice acting or more active combat or more player-driven stuff. Trying to beat WoW at its own game is like matching a wrestler with a gorilla. Sure it’s doable but it would be pretty dang hard to overpower the stronger opponent.
Dominion? Myrkalus? Join me and Nob? =p
Couple of things I didn’t like too much from my experience, the crafting system in Wildstar while original in concept the implementation is rough at best, the tutorials need to be more detailed and the system needs to be simplified (I’ve basically foregone levelling any crafting/professions until I hit 50).
With the classes all of them come with a second class that can either heal or tank, so engineers, warriors and stalkers tank, while the other three can heal. With the tanking classes you can’t really get a feel for them until you go past level 15 (which is kind of crappy) but that’s when their dps abilities come into their own.
I think you really come to appreciate the gameplay in Wildstar when you start doing Dungeons and even possibly Adventures. I find the levelling/questing has lost its luster for me already (I’m not even reading the quest text anymore >.<) but I'm definitely won over by the dungeons! My other qualm with this game is the UI for pop-ups and extra stuff, while I approve of how it is for the action bars and the targetting, the rest of the UI is just incredibly un-intuitive. Checking on quests or your map doesn't feel natural and I have no idea why the Path quests needed to be in a separate screen… basically there's a lot clutter in the UI that detracts from the overall experience imo but I guess its something you can get used to?
Yeah, I asked Nob in advance which one you guys were on. 🙂 I’ll totally add the launcher to my Steam client to see if I can get it to register so people can see when I’m in-game. Character I’m playing most at the moment is ‘Sariss’, but ‘Aiun’ (warrior) and ‘Angelsong’ (medic) should see some play.
This is a lot of what I felt about it too. Got through to the second area after the tutorial twice and felt like I was suddenly in Northrend. That’s part of the issue I think, it’s not just that it feels like WoW, it’s that it feels like the WoW I got sick of playing years ago. It’s competently put together, but I’ve tried enough MMOs now where everything they do in it I feel like I’ve experienced already at the same or better quality.
A lot of what gives it that WoW flavour is the visuals. It’s like WoW and Ratchet & Clank had a dumb baby. Additionally the design of the areas is very much Wrath of the Lich King-era WoW. Basically a theme park of quest hubs strung together, and the worlds are simple heightmaps with environmental bits like buildings and whatnot placed into the heightmap. It works well enough but it’s pretty hard for it to come close to properly designed areas like you find in some of its contemporaries. I also don’t find the art style particularly exciting and it feels pretty regressive coming off MMOs with stunning visuals like FFXIV.
There just didn’t seem to be any reason to play it. I regret buying my copy.
I don’t especially regret the copy in principle (just the price of it), I definitely regret the three month sub more. This should probably have been a 1-monther. I’m hoping playing with Nob/Puppet/et al might make for some more fun dungeoning, which seems to be where they’re pinning their hopes for sustaining sub numbers. The ‘Elder Game’ – given that the other content is apparently somewhere around a tenth of WoW’s. Also interested to see what they have to say about this unusual developer claim about creating interesting and challenging solo veteran content. In an MMO, where ‘raid or die’ isn’t the only way to get uber endgame gear? That’ll be the fucking day. Never seen it, somewhat skeptical it’ll happen, will be pleasantly surprised if they actually follow through instead of bowing to the basement-dweller hardcore raid minority who make up the majority of forum warriors.
Either way, when it expires, I’m probably going to be re-subbing to FFXIV. I’m really hoping some patches land in between then to further improve the experience, and the Ninja looks sweet.
My fondness may just be nostalgia because I do remember getting intensely frustrated by the quality of PUGs for dungeoning, latency affecting telegraphed attacks (such that there is literally no way to avoid some without simply moving at random), reliance on FATEs for levelling other classes, annoyance at restrictions of leves, and tagging mobs in FATEs as certain classes, and a few other things… Hoping I’ll be able to get around that by just relying on a friendly guild and levelling crafting (which I LOVED).
Oh holy crap dude, you jumped straight in with a 3 month sub? I usually make that mistake but even I knew to try the game out first.
I wish I had gotten more into FFXIV. I had my momentum broken by the combination of their issues around not polling your position in the game regularly enough and latency causing you to be considered to be inside AoEs that you had dodged, which meant I couldn’t do some of the later instances, plus the fact that the Garuda fight was simply too hard to PUG and I wasn’t playing with friends I could ask for help from. The guild I was in was enormous and pretty impersonal. When I las logged in, I’d been booted from it anyway 🙁
But that Thief class looks super rad and exactly the sort of combat I was enjoying the most (I played PUG/MNK main class and it was the most enjoyable for me, followed fairly closely, oddly, with the White Mage).
The biggest issue I had with the game was the lack of repeatable, quality story content once you had finished your first playthrough. They want you to try multiple classes and stuff, but once you’re at cap with your main class there’s just not enough left to do with your other classes except grind FATEs. They boosted the XP from leves later on I think, but that was after I lost focus, and besides that, they put a restriction on the number you can do for no good reason so they didn’t seem like a viable way to grind out a new class.
Still, FFXIV 2.0 is a night and day difference from 1.0. It’s amazing how much better they made it in such a short period too. How is it that Yoshida can redevelop an entire MMO from the ground up and make it profitable beyond internal expectations in about 24 months, but it takes a decade to get mainline console Final Fantasies done? There’s more content in an MMO in every way.
@pupp3tmast3r, and @beardymcmuttonchops, please accept my Steam friend request.
Edit: Also @benny and @sughly.
I’m just on the way home from work now!
Cool.
DUDE! Thank you so much! I’ve wanted Battleblock Theatre for ages!
That’s cool man, hope you enjoy it.
Updating my wish list because want to win free games..it’s a good thing \o/ when steam mobile lets me do it that is
Bleurgh. It’s a horrible cold wet day at the moment. When I woke up it looked like it would be reasonable, but the weather’s really closed in. Still, it’s a great day for vidya gaemz.
Check your Steam inbox dude.
This new building I’m in is not good in terms of taking high winds quietly. Sounds like a giant beast is banging on a metal door outside 😛
It’s just come clear here, but all last night and this morning it’s been raining and blowing a gale
Played some more Dragons Dogma over the weekend. Get the feeling this is a slow burn. If I had heaps of free time, this would definitely be amazing to me, but as it is I’m feeling a little impatient. Currently I’m an assassin but I think I might end up changing vocations soon as it’s already getting a bit repetitive.
That said, it does tick a lot of boxes for me. There are a lot of really great ideas here and it looks like it’s a very deep game. If they managed to hone out some of the rough edges and make it a little more cinematic I think it could have been GOTY. Hope there will be a sequel.
Playing different vocations and unlocking their signature augments and skills for use with other classes is kind of a game in itself. (Totally recommend levelling up fighter to rank 5 just to get Sinew – extra carry capacity! Combined with the ‘strong legs’ perk from I think… strider? The improved mobility makes traversing the rest of the game so much more bearable.)
Does anyone know where I can donate unwanted old PC games? I don’t have the heart to throw them out.
Salvation Army the best bet?
Alternatively, anyone in Sydney want a hodgepodge of oldish games? Highlights include SIN episode 1 (the highly successful series that brought episodic gaming into the norm… oh wait), Collector editions of The Witcher, Arkham Asylum and CoD World at War, each missing a a significant part of the actual CE bonus (artbook, batarang), Rome: Total War (On 4 CDs, no less!), and a sealed copy of Phantasy Star Universe, the servers of which were shut down a number of years ago.
I recommend walking out onto the street, wandering around until you find a group of children, then throwing the games at them while shouting about how much better things were back in your day.
Why don’t you just ask on here?
First Impressions!
Deponia
Pretty swell. I’ve only played it for a couple of hours but I’ve enjoyed it so far. The main character is pretty funny, I like him. Stereotypical adventure game protagonist I guess, it’s good. I get stuck every 2 seconds though and it turns into a ‘which pixel didn’t I press’ game which can get a bit tiring.
Rot13 for where I am up to (early game): V’z hc gb gur cneg jurer V nz pbyyrpgvat vaterqvragf sbe na Rfcerffb. V tbg nyy gur boivbhf barf snveyl dhvpxyl, fb V raqrq hc whfg jnyxvat nebhaq sbe unys na ubhe pyvpxvat ba fghss gelvat gb svaq gur erfg. V thrff fbzrguvat vf yvaxrq gb gur jubyr zntarg-fgvpxvat/rkcybfvbaf/erq-yvtug-nynez guvat, ohg V pna’g svther bhg jung vg punatrf. Nu jryy, V’yy trg gurer…
Banished
Very fun game! It’s like a smaller-scope Sim City, which I really enjoy. Makes you focus more on the population rather than trying to expand your city. I’ve only got about 30 adults and running into an old age problem (all my workers are dying D:). Also there’s no ‘force your kids to go to school’ option so I end up with a bunch of kids just walking off into the distance by themselves 😛
Easy solution for Banished: force the kids to skip school and go straight to work, then get the workers to kick back and breed like mad.
I need to send out a village announcement for everyone to start getting it on more to bump up the population. Nobody seems interested.
(Though I have one builder woman who has like four kids, so someone is getting the message at least :P)
Yeah, Banished is tricky. The first time I played, I ended up with 2 age bubbles, and when the second popped I had like 3 people of breeding age left, and so I stopped playing before they died out.
And people will go to school if there’s space available, it’s just that until age 10 they derp around not helping very much. If this was Black & White 2 I’d recommend using them as a source of creature food, but this is a very different game.
The only teacher I have just sits in the school teaching the one or two diligent students in the village while the rest of the ferals just run off into the mountains all day.
Also, with your breeding problems I would recommend against investing in livestock (the first time I did my critters died out because they couldn’t sustain their population :/).
I just use a guide if I can’t figure out stuff for a while :3
Onion Dingo Ham is on sale again at $1.49.
You forgot the Shooty Bang Bang part :p
Also, $4.49 for a 4-pack, and the deal finishes in 7 hours and 40 minutes.
I really did enjoy playing Onion: Ogres Have Layers last night.
Does that mean there’ll be more Onion tonight?
Not for me, I gotta work 🙁
aaaww /o\
what time do you get home?
Not till about 10:30pm.
Well i don’t work till late, so i’ll probably be on around then anyway, but i guess we’ll see how we go
I’ll be there!
@pixel_the_ferret_viking Apparently so. I’m not sure of my availability, but if I can be there I will.
Who doesn’t have it aside from me?
Dammit, why do I have to be paid when the sale ends? Otherwise copies of onion dino bang bang for everyone!
Farm Steam cards 😛
I’ve got around $10 from this sale alone
I don’t have many though
I’m sure plenty of games you’ve played before, or didn’t know about have trading cards. On the top of Steam click on “Scree” (the menus are Store Library Community and Greenius – so I assume yours is just scree) and then click on Badges to see all your eligible trading card games.
I just clicked on “Play Game” which brings up the downloader and looked at which ones were a small download. Then I just let them run idle while I did other stuff. Let the money roll in!
If its on the day the sale ends, there’s always the option of using the paypal tendency to take 1-2 days to take money out of your bank. That’s gotten me a game or 2 on sale when I’ve been technically broke before
Gonna just take the AV8R back to JB for a return. Thinking about getting a T.16000M instead, they sound alright and a little more reliable for similar price.
@freezespreston @rize @tech_knight @pupp3tmast3r @sernobulus
I sent out an email last night to you guys so sing out if you didn’t get it. There was a separate email for the Eldar players and one for everyone else.
Yep gotten and responded!
This sounds like Tau discrimination!
The best kind of discrimination. 😛
If you had a character in the game I’d give my character a perk where everytime he aims for a headshot there a 10% chance he “accidentally” hits you instead =,= Let’s call it selective vision =p
Such a shame that I’m the GM then. I would have loved being shot in the back by a renegade Tau. /sarcasm 😛
Well there’s always the potential scattering imperial frag grenade… worked for TB >:)
Can someone say backfire or weapon jam? 😛
Hey all. My dog passed away Saturday night. I think she had an okay last day. Unlike previous days in the week, Saturday was sunny, and I sat outside with her in the sun for a while. We buried her Sunday morning under a tree that’s covered in white flowers, and put a large rock and a little dog statue over her. Also, she was wrapped up in a blanket my mum said my sister and I used as babies. It had bears, and squirrels and rabbits on it, which I think she would have liked because she loved rabbits. She’d always come out and help me feed the rabbits we keep in cages outside, and liked poking her nose in at them to say hello.
Emotionally I’m doing okay. It’s weird not having her around the house, especially when something happens that you’d expect to hear her respond to, like our other dog barking, and then you don’t hear her bark as well and it’s just odd. The last week and a half with her I’d sort of managed to come to term with things though. Also, she looked really peaceful when she died. People always say how the dead look peaceful when they pass away from diseases or naturally or whatever, but I’ve never really got that because I’ve never really been around death before. Dead rabbits and birds and fish and stuff, but nothing like this. I get it now though, because she really did look peaceful. Not like she was sleeping, as people sometimes describe, just like she was at peace.
*All the hugs*
My condolences! =[
That sucks but it sounds like she died about as well as anyone can die, surrounded by love.
She may have been peaceful because she knew that you’d come to terms with it. Dogs and Apes are the only animals other then humans that can recognise facial expressions.
Typical dogs, even at the end, they’re more concerned for you then themselves.
If your dog had a good life, that’s all they care about. If you gave her love, discipline and affection, I’m sure she enjoyed herself. Also, Do not be afraid to cry. Anyone who says it’s just an animal has no idea what they’re talking about. A dog is more than a pet, it is a family member. If your Mother, Father, sister, brother died, it would hurt just as much as your dog dying because they’re all a member of your family.
Also, keep an eye on your other dog. S/he will probably be missing the deceased dog. Sometimes a new companion is needed, but if that occurs, the whole family would need to discuss it.
I hope this helps you. Losing a piece of your family is extremely difficult.
Wow, so normally i don’t get to play games for long periods of time… maybe 45 minutes to 1 hour at a time, max of a couple of hours a day…
State of Decay i clocked 5.5 hours yesterday alone,
I do believe that the game may have it’s hooks in me XD…
Also purchased Metro Last Light this morning, screw the budget \o/ People can live on dog food right? RIGHT?
Oh, I’ve well and truly screwed my budget for the week.
WEEK? I’d have expected year by the way you were gifting like crazy
The electricity bill can totally wait another 4 days… right?
Who needs electricity anyway when you have GAMES-…. oh wait /o\
Doesn’t show up on your credit report until it’s 5 days overdue \o/
State of Decay is amazing.
Yes I’ve said this to you before, and I’ll say it again! *shakes fist*
Had a survivor torn in half by a Big ‘un…. I was genuinely sad when that happened!
This game makes you care about your characters a bit too much, it’s pretty damn well done 😛
For anyone curious, all 4 of the games in the Steam community choice are brilliant.
DAMMIT! why’d you have to tell me that. Anyone want to trade Steam Summer Sale Trading Cards? Only need card 3, and card 9 to craft my level 4 badge.
If I get more doubles I’ll give you a shout.
Cheers man.
I tried adding you but the search is showing nobody with the name cheeky_munky (Which came from TAY Names) – hit me up (beeawwb) and I should be able to help you out. 🙂
Cheers, will do.
Edit: Done.
Got it. Incoming trade offer. 🙂
Don’t know what to trade you for them, do you have Killing Floor?
No need to trade anything for them; my gift to you.
Nah, I’ll gift you something.
Sorry man, I tried to make a counter offer, but it wouldn’t let me, ended up having to cancel it, could you send it through again.
yup /o\
😛
@greenius !! I was going to waste some time channel-flipping on Sunday afternoon, but instead I thought…
WHAT WOULD GREENBRO DO?
So I played some Xenoblade!
I’m now up to…
gur ovg jurer Whwh (ybyanzr) unf whfg eha bss va gur pne gb tb gb Pbybal 6 naq uvf fvfgre whfg fpberq na vaivgr gb gur cnegl. Jura V fgnegrq, V jnf ng gung obff onggyr if. gur gjb ebobgf va gung rgure plyvaqre guvatl nobir gurng svefg pnir?
Probably still going to be chipping away slowly & sporadically, but just letting you know I did make some sort of effort 😛
–fledau
:’)
So. Damn. Proud!
Seen much on Xenoblade Chronicles X? The Direct trailers are pretty good but the most recent E3 trailer is the worst out of them :(. Thankfully there’s a 40 minute Treehouse demo and it looks and plays a lot like Xenoblade 😀
I don’t remember if they said it this way in the Treehouse demo or not, but apparently the ‘X’ at the end of Xenoblade Chronicles X is supposed to be pronounced as ‘cross’ and not the letter X. This is a common Japanese thing and I expect it’ll not transfer correctly to western markets though.
I’m still a bit worried the game will be an ultra-generic open world Elder Scrolls knockoff but I’ll probably still buy it anyway.
Worst news is that they’ve changed the composer. 🙁 Xenoblade was mainly Yoko Shimomura, Manami Kiyota and ACE+ with a couple of Yasunori Mitsuda pieces. X is going to be all Hiroyuki Sawano, who is all about big bombastic orchestral crap. 🙁 He’s an anime composer, most notable recent examples of his work are the soundtracks for Attack on Titan (not the openings) and Kill la Kill.
EX >:|
I loved the music in the previous game but I don’t know who composed what. I have no idea about Sawano but I’m sure it’ll good enough. We’ll see!
http://vgmdb.net/album/18946 (p.s. I find it amusing that the catalog number for the OST starts with ‘derp’)
Note: you’ll need to do some interpretation, as a lot of the areas had their names changed slightly in the localization
Sawano’s stuff is boring IMO. He’s like a less good version of Taku Iwasaki (Read or Die, Gurren Lagann etc). Maybe an open world game will make him step out of the usual style into something more interesting. Hopefully.
Oops, meant to type Sawano* 😛
I’ll just wait til I have my grubby little hands on the game and hear its in-game music.
Bionis Leg! It has the best music of any area. So much fun to explore.
@novacascade: I sent you an email last week re:TAY Japan Extravaganza 2015, did you get it?
Was that about not getting your Insurance certificate? I replied saying it was all good, and I re-attached your certificate as well. Did you not get that one?
Nope. Hmmm.
EDIT: Not in my junk mail.
Hmm, very strange. I’ll resend it from my home account instead of the work one, maybe I’m getting blocked for some reason.
This time it came through, I’m thinking maybe the attachment is causing your mail server to eat it?
Possibly. We’re in the middle of a massive change over of all our systems, there’s bound to be some glitches. I’ll talk to my boss about it
You know I’ve been pleasantly surprised this weekend with the games I bought on steam sales. Van Helsing took up all of my Saturday and I’ve only managed to get past the first Act so far, really enjoying it (more so than I did D3). It’s just the little things like that are really making me enjoy it! And the Witcher 2 was definitely a solid rebuy =] Between these two games I think I’ll be keeping very busy over the next few weeks ^^
I picked up Van Helsing cheap on a previous sale and thought it was rather good for the first game of its ilk I’ve played since Diablo 2 all those years ago. But it’s going to take me a bit to dedicate more time to it and really get into it (too many games, little time and all that). One thing that helps is that I took the time to set up Voice Activated Commands to use with it. When you’re not insanely dexterous on the keyboard for this kind of game, speaking commands takes so much of the pressure off.
LJ is talking about this voice program, handy little thing when you set it up and train it
With Brutal Legend on sale, it seems like an appropriate time to say: I have 7 of the 15 cards you need to craft a badge. If someone wants some of all of them, send me a trade offer through Steam.
Now you have eight. 😀
You generous jerk, you.
I need some. I have two of 6 that you could pass the extra onto someone
I just wanted to say that all you guys are fantastic, I’ve never felt so liked and accepted in all my life than I have from my time on TAY. This is such an awesome community.
YOU GUYS ARE SO FREAKIN’ AWESOME!
Everything is awesome!
Case in point, @greenius just gifted me The Kingdoms Of Amalur Collection. What a guy \o/
I’m pretty okay!
Amalamadingdong reckoning. Really good game, playing it with my wife now.
Collection? How can there be a collection if there’s only been one game?
Just had a look at the store page, apparently it includes the base game and DLC.
I know you are but what am I?
Riz the dino slayer!
EDIT – Wait no, i read that wrong…
Damn me and trying to be funny!
DAMN YOU HINDSIGHT!
Pixel, you think that just because you’re the Prince of all Vikings you’re the best there is at what you do. But let me tell you something brother! You ain’t no Wolverine, and you ain’t got what it takes, to STEP UP… TO THE FIVE TIME CHAMPION!
Because the name’s Recoome… And it rhymes with doom… And you’re gonna be hurting…. ALL! TOO! SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONAH!!!!!!!!!!!!”
He’s one of my favourites by far, even though his time was short, was still just brilliant xD. Can’t get his speech out of my head
A garbage man.
Never change not-so-evil-but-totally-generous-monkey \o/
Good morning everyone 🙂
Hope you all had a good week.
My week was kinda emotionally all over the place :S
Felt super down Monday – Wednesday, but have been really happy ever since 🙂
Highlights include finishing the semester, seeing X-Men: Days of Futures Past, and realising that I have some really incredible friends (in the form of you guys) 🙂
Hopefully today or tomorrow I should find out if my leave request went through alright, so I can start planning / booking things for this Brisbane trip 🙂
It’s a bit short notice, so hopefully I don’t have any trouble with the bookings :S
Hope you guys have a good week! 🙂
Yeah we’re pretty amazing… Thanks for not leaving us (@strange) out this time in your special mentions =P
So far my Steam sale spending is all of about 11 dollars and it’s all been gifts…
I spent about 50% of my budget on gifts 😛
ALSO START SPENDING MONEY ON YOURSELF DAMMIT! 😛
I’m sorry x2 to you Pixel, because you bought me two games. I’m the worst.
No apologising! i do it because i want to, not to make people feel bad… it’s about time i show some appreciation to the people that has been awesome to me!
But I have no way to return the favour! /o\
Unless Ebony wants to borrow games and overlocker.
Seriously, it’s not a thing where i expect to be repayed XD
I might take you up on the borrowing of games at some points though \o/
But seriously don’t stress it!
I know but I feel bad D=
I honestly don’t want anything.. Well I want South Park, but that can wait until last day of the sale 😛
What’s your Steam ID dude, can’t find your deets on TAYnames.
That’s possibly cause i’m not on TAYnames =P
I should go through it and re-add everyone after my entire friends list vanished about 6 months ago, but so much effort lol.
But you can find me here.
Link broken.
No idea what you’re talking about =P
I’m sorry /o\
Dammit Scree, I’m going to stop you apologizing for everything if it’s the last thing I do.
*shakes fist*
People have tried before and they’ve all failed! Mwah ha ha ha.
Wait, why’re you sorry..? I’m lost..
I think an easier question is, why aren’t I sorry?
/o\
Being that this is already turning into TAY Appreciation Page 2, i’m just going to say this:
I cannot get over how generous you guys are! i can’t get over how much money you spend, not on yourself but on other people you care about in the community.
Every time these sales happen, i am always overwhelmed with the spirit of gifting that runs through TAY, and i think this has been the one of the biggest ones yet…
Thank you for being awesome guys!
I concur. got some awesome games from some awesome people.
@freezespreston has just proven my point!
Thanks man for Kingdoms of Ramalamadingdong!
SO.DAMN.KIND!
Omfg… 5 seconds after I accept @evilmonkey ‘s steam invite he gifts me The Wolf Among Us…. !!
Thanks man =]
Hey, you said you wanted it on page 1, I thought I would oblige.
Enjoy it while you can, I’m totally going back to being evil after the Steam sale is over*
*not really.
Seriously dude, I’m not gifting games to get anything in return, I’m doing it because I want to.
Already played through Sleeping Dogs on 360, so I don’t know if I should accept your gift, is there anyone else on your friends list that hasn’t played it. It was an awesome game and I could totally play through it again at some point though.
Noooooo I don’t like receiving unless I can give too :'( Damn you monkey!!
Edit: Take it monkey! Outside of peeps on TAY all my friends have no interest in games! The few that do play are Dota 2 exclusive =p
Just got another message, saying that you sent me a gift, so I declined Sleeping Dogs, but there was no other gift, so it must have been the same one. If you really really want me to take it I will, but I just thought it’d be better if you could give it to someone who hasn’t played it before.
Hmmm no I didn’t send it again =S that said read my above comment and accept it =p
Ok, thanks for Warhammer 40K: Dawn Of War II man, you’re awesome \o/
Gosh you make it so hard to be generous!!! *shakes fist at you* =P
@powalen
Let the raiding of tombs commence! 🙂
Isn’t it optional now :p
*phew*
Was literally looking at that page considering the gift, but I wasn’t sure if Poolen wanted the DLC or not 😛
Dodged a bullet ;D
Oh, you may have dodged a bullet, but can you dodge Scorpion’s chain? 😀
Enjoy!
Um, so are you telling @greenius to “get over here”.
I’ll give you two some privacy :p
Argh, Crazybuy! Thanks, man. Mighty kind of you.
I really need to get you something back one of these days, you’ve given me multiple gifts already!
Tay, I want to thank you for being so generous and I want to apologise. I complain about being poor because I find it so frustrating that I can’t pay it forward to you all. You’re kind and I want to re-pay you all. Unfortunately, there is not much I can do aside from give advice, make cakes or cosplay and then I go crazy overboard because it’s all I can do.
Sorry.
Cake or death?
DEATHCAKE!
Cake is pretty rad though.
Hm, I might enlist Gorzy and Numbers’ help to make some cupcakes for Pax meat then.
Cakes are always good!
I think everyone knows what it’s like doing it tough, so don’t sweat it… It’s an insanely frustrating situation and it’s OK to vent!
If people in TAY give gifts, then I’m pretty sure that it’s not with any expectation of reciprocation, so you shouldn’t feel in any way guilty about receiving things. They’re just wanting to do something nice and that is often its own reward. And I don’t think anyone would give people things if they didn’t like them. You should just keep being awesome.
That said, I’ll never turn down cake. Cake is awesome.
Paying it forward does’t come with the rule that you have to spend money. Just take the opportunity to be a good person next time you get the chance 🙂
I know, but I want to pay it forward. I’m generally a good person, so that stuff I don’t even notice
I’ll call in the cakes debt at PAX 🙂
I’m planning to make cakes for pax. 48 cupcakes for the pax meat.
BABY
AND AGAIN
Awwww shiiiiiiiiiit!
Congratulations!
A wild baby appears,
it uses “LOVE ME BECAUSE I’M FUCKING ADORABLE”
It’s super effective
Pixel Faints
Congrats man \o/
😀
You’ve got a beautiful family, man. 🙂
http://shanewsmith.com/babby
Congratulations, we are officially ‘full term’ today but another 4 weeks till due date
Hope all is well with Mum and Bub
Now I know what all the congrats are for and here I thought it was shower Shane with compliments day.
Congrats man to your growing family \o/ thought if a name yet?
I thought I was immune to steam sales after buying pretty much everything for two years, but I hadn’t realised how populated my wishlist has gotten and how attractive a game I only have a passing interest in can seem when it’s only three bucks.
One of us! One of us!
I bought nothing during the Christmas sales so I assumed I didn’t need anything else! How things change in 6 months…
I’m sort of in the same boat.. But my wishlist is pretty baron. The games I have on it bar 2 i’ve got on console, so they’re really just there so Steam can be all “hey this game on your wishlist is insanely cheap you should buy it” only reason I have a wishlist cause I suck at looking at the store page on a daily basis.
For anyone interesting in game speedruns the annual Summer Games Done Quick marathon has started today! For those unaware, basically the “Games Done Quick’ streams are annual streams where the best speedrunners all get together to speedrun a heap of cool games nonstop for charity! As I type this they are running Banjo-Tooie If you’ve got time, check it out.
Yess, I love the speed gaming!
Been watching it on and off it’s really good
@shane, pretty sure you need to repost on new page \o/
because i don’t want to steal your thunder i’m not going to do it…. BUT CONGRATZ MAN!
Congrats @shane! 🙂
Seems I’m all about thunder stealing!
What happened to @shane?
Congrats just coz
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2014/06/talk-amongst-yourselves-282/comment-page-2/#comment-2773823
Radness. My I-can’t-believe-it’s-not-Brawl from the 3rd Party Combaticon set shipped. Taken way longer than they originally said it would, by this point they were meant to have 3-4 of them done, not two.
With
Blast-OffAir Burst, it took about a week to get to me after shipping, so hopefully next week \o/. I think Totally-Not-Swindle will be the next one after that which I’m less excited about.The best thing about being an adult: buying better versions of the toys you had as a kid. \o/
EDIT: Oh fuck, the same guys are also gearing up to do a Technobots/Computron set. All they need to do now is the Aerialbots and I might as well hand them my wallet.
Who’s “Reaper” on Steam? Jus wonderin’!
*Looks at name tag*
“terreF lexiP”….
Not me \o/
#helping
Manny Calavara or blue oyster cult!
Blue Oyster Cult aren’t afraid of him, but they are not him. Or her.
Meeeeeeeeee
@pupp3tmast3r
I like how the steam sales are a game all by themselves. The one time I participated, just the voting and getting badges and stuff was fun. It’s also entertaining to watch the TAY mini-game of who can gift the most games. 😀
Got to gift them all!
I think @evilmonkey has that one won already.
He’s bought my love! 😀
…
There was love already. Love already. XD
I just wanted to show my appreciation to you guys for being so awesome. I know I haven’t gifted something to everybody, but there’s still time, the sale goes till the 1st you know.
It’s a close tie between CrazyBuy and GiftingMonkey!
EDIT – But we all know the real plot twist is that @dc gave in and gets gifts!
Ah, so many great games. Thank you TAAAAAAY.
CrazyBuy is the original, wisened gifter carrying on his own legacy. GiftMonkey is the young go-getter trying to break into the gifting market.
wall steam?
But that makes me Gordon Gecko… D:
Gift on wall steam
To me, this is the happiest part of the story.
How did Dragonball go from fights being farting on each other and girls showing their boobs to demigods firing world ending energy beams at each other?
Early eps of dragonball are pretty… odd.
“Are you a girl?”
*taps @fled on the crotch*
yeeeaaah they were pretty odd 😛
“Well that escalated quickly”
Master Roshi never gets nosebleeds anymore…
The oddest thing I find is that if you watch it in Japanese, Goku’s voice doesn’t change. At all. His own son sounds less childish than he does.
I was going to suggest that maybe having his tail cut off resulted in the Saiyan equivalent of a eunuch – but Gohan disproves that. Unless….Gohan is Vegetas son! It all makes sense now!
They’re even both named after food, where Goku isn’t. Everything lines up.
Kakkarot.
#morepedantry
Gohan is half human though.
#pedant
That’s why he’s a grain and not a vegetable.
Has anyone played Planetary Annihilation? And if so how is the new update?
I played earlyearlyearlyearly betas and it was… not great. Loads of potential! Just the optimization was shitty, there was no AI, and the match-making/multiplayer lobby system was more broken than not. I’m letting that one cook for a really long time before firing it back up, but from the basics, it looks a lot like the TA that I love and for whom nostalgia forced me to buy PA.
Thanks I wanted to get a review before sinking any money into an early access game! That game’s been early access for a while as well! and $60.00 ain’t nothing to laugh at!
Does anyone here have an aversion to raspberry seeds?
I forgot to add the question mark
I can’t say i’ve ever taken a stance as to whether i’m for or against them 😛
I guess i’m… indifferent?
I’ve always thought raspberry seeds to be the most arrogant of all the seeds. Never met one that I’ve liked.
Depends on context. In a smoothie, they’re the devil. In a cake or similar they’re fine.
I dislike the way they are just small enough to get lodged in your teeth and stuff, but just big enough that you can notice that they’re there.
I’m against them and everything they stand for! >:|
I love raspberries, and raspberries wouldn’t be raspberries without raspberry seeds.
So I’m for them 😀
Looks like you’re outnumbered. Sorry Liondrive
Has anyone told you guys how great you all are?
We’re currently sitting in second place, four votes behind first and about a hundred in front of third. I seriously can’t thank you guys enough for voting for us, this is a huge opportunity.
here have another vote 😀
Here, have another vote 😀
here have another vote 😀
Here, have another vote =D
Here, have another vote =D)
Wooo Harley Quinn is now in the lead by 5 votes \o/
9 now! This could actually happen!
I’ll spread the word as far as i can, WE WILL MAKE IT HAPPEN DAMMIT!
I didn’t even know this was happening! Count one more from me!!!
Thanks @beeawwb for gifting me the remaining 2 cards I needed to craft my Level 4 Steam Summer Sale Badge.
If any of you have doubles of cards 2, and 9 I would be very appreciative if you would trade with me so I can craft my level 5 badge.
You… craft badges? I sell cards and buy games! 😀
10 incoming. 😛
Thanks again man, you’re a legend \o/
I’ll send you some once I get home! Trading is locked on my work computer =p
Thanks man.
Trading is locked on my own PC. I’ve been wanting to, soo bad, but I have like… four more days to wait. 🙁
Why is trading locked for you?
I imagine he’s got a new comp and has just logged onto steam this week? There’s a 7 day lockout I think!
Ah, that would explain it.
That’s the one.
You said that before I got card 5 as well. 😛
If you have any more you don’t need I’m happy to trade for them.
What ones do you need? I’ve got doubles of cards 1, 4, 6 and 7.
I currently have 8 and 9, but with luck I’ll be making it to level 5 because I’m a sucker for badges so I basically need any 😛
I somehow have 7 leftover cards from the 2013 summer sale so if you didn’t get to 5 on that we could swap?
EDIT: I also have a second “Scuba Steve” for Battleblock Theatre.
I don’t need any of mine, I’ve just been selling them for the going rate (ala @dc) and happened to have these from a purchase this morning. 5 just came in when I crafted an FTL badge.
There’ll be more soon, I’m sure, happy to pass them along.
Just sent you something to show my appreciation 🙂
Thanks mate, totally didn’t have to do that and greatly appreciated. I’ve had that on my “Sale Notification List” (I can’t call it a wishlist :P) for ages and just never pulled the trigger. Guess I’ve got an impetus to play it now! Merci beaucoup. 🙂
I’m still working towards level 3, but I’ve been quite good at not buying expensive stuff and my team hasn’t won a day so my cards are coming in slow 😛
Are you on pink team?
Cos they are sure as hell going to win today
Nah, Blue. We’ve been quietly sitting in the middle of the pack every time…
We better win tomorrow! >:(
All this talk of badges just makes me think of Scouts and all the little badges you could get for doing that.
Going for a level 5 badge, nice. I’ll probably only get a level 2 this time round. Although depending on what I get I might decide to buy some last minute cards when they are super cheap at the end of the sale to click up another level.
I’m only one level 1, halfway to 2! I clearly need to be buying more games. 🙁
I haven’t even got my level 1 yet and I’m a sucker for the shinies
I have no idea how any of this works. I didn’t even know how to join teams until Day 3.
You get trading cards for buying games, and voting on the community choice sale. They’re numbered 1 to 10. Once you have all 10 cards you can craft the badge to earn backgrounds, emoticons and in-game stuff. You can keep collecting more sets of cards and crafting badges to “level up” your badge. Or you can just put all your cards on the Marketplace and make some money off them to buy more games.
@popdart5
I’m properly going through the character sheets now. In regards to the “Eldar Character Creation Guide” sheet you sent through. Do Eldar get all the listed talents, skills and traits? Or do we select a certain number of each?
Those listed features are available as part of additional rules that govern Eldar characters and what not. For the most part, if you look at the corresponding career path for you character you will see what traits, talents, and skills you start out with in addition to what things you may choose in the future. I simply included them all in the same document so that there was a good reference point for the future.
The career path is kind of like a levelling scheme in that you spend experience to reach the various character “tiers”, otherwise treated as levels. For instance, at Tier 1 (which is where everyone will start), you can choose to spend experience to gain the skills and talents available under the Tier 1 advancement table for your career, in addition to spending experience for characteristic score upgrades. Once you spend enough experience, you will advance to the next Tier and new skills and talents will be available.
I probably should have mentioned that if you feel confident in doing, try doing a run through of the character creation steps but I’m still going to host a character creation session at some point in the near future so that everyone is on the same level of understanding.
Forgot the tags. >.< @rize @freezespreston @sernobulus
Okay @popdart5 now that spoiler tags work I won’t feel bad for posting RPG stuff. \o/
Do we not start off with any kind of weapon proficiency?Craftworld Weapon Training is a thing that all of the Eldar characters get as a starting Talent. Talents are roughly equivalent to feats from Pathfinder. Craftworld Weapon Training will give you access to all standard ranged and melee Craftworld Eldar weapons which is shown in the spreadsheet that I sent you guys. It basically is the same thing as proficiency as you won’t be wielding Craftworld weapons on any sort of penalty now.Okay I think I am confused as to which talents we start off with. Do we start off with all the talents listed in the general (non-path specific) “Eldar Character Guide”?No as you will be relying on the talents that you get in your specific career path. The list of talents in the Eldar character guide are the list of all Eldar-specific talents that you, as an Eldar character, may get over the course of your career. You will always refer to your career path to determine what talents and skills you have/may have and the Eldar character guide is sort of a general reference document with a few of the special rules for Eldar character.Pretty much all the anime I’ve been watching bar a couple of shows either finished last week or finishes this week. Which is kind of sad.
But also that means new season \o/
I’ve been really digging the quieter, more warm-fuzzy shows this season.
I don’t know what it is, but I’m really fatigued by the grimdark/edgy/mind-fucking sadistic shows and really just wanna see shows about people learning to be nice to each other and resolving the conflicts that arise from being humans who don’t understand each other very well and have different motives and expectations, as opposed to conflict against ancient evil or psychopaths.
I’m talking stuff like Bokura wa Minna Kawaisou, Soredemo Sekai wa Utsukushii, Tonari no seki-kun as my favourites. (Shameful admission to… well. Occasionally some Mangaka-san to assistant-san to.)
I really hope there’s going to be more of the less-fraught stuff coming up to chill out to. Really need to escape to a make-believe world where people are nice to each other sometimes. (So, y’know – loving the TAY gifting-frenzy and seeing the multiplayer go on. That’s just neat.)
You’re neat! >:|
There’s usually a few fluffier shows every season. I tend to prefer a mixture, having constant grimdark in all the media out there gets oppressive after a while (it’s all through current TV, games and everything). There was quite a bit of it this season too, to the point that I couldn’t enjoy a couple of shows that seemed kind of reasonable due to them wanting to be dark for the sake of it.
I actually find that stuff that’s completely mundane in setting and plot doesn’t click with me, possibly because of a lack of similar experiences to grasp onto. So I tend to need a decent hook. Kawaisou for example has that. It’s not an original concept and it’s probably not even the best execution of the boarding-house-full-of-odd-people idea, but it works well and it’s entertaining.
Actually, thinking about it, if I were to make a list of my all-time favourites, a lot of them wouldn’t be hugely dark and violent at all.
I had a glance over the upcoming season’s stuff and not a huge amount of stand-outs, at least stuff I know about. Obvious stand-outs are obviously Sailor Moon Crystal and Sword Art Online II, and the biggest one (even in the extremely likely event that it’s complete shit) will be the Kantai Collection adaption, which I’ll definitely be watching since that game still has its tentacles in deep despite having not played in months. Other than that it wasn’t anything that immediately stood out to me, but that can be fun. Often the stuff I enjoy the most are shows I had no idea about going into.
Minami-ke!
*slowly begins to unbutton shirt*
Now I can’t get the Kill la Kill teacher unbuttoning his shirt out of my head. Complete with lens-flare.
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Single circle to a wave
Single circle to a wave
Ping pong circulate
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Swing your partner round and round
Swing your corner
Bow to your partner
Dixie style to an ocean wave
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Dixie style to an ocean wave
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See, I was thinking more of the Suck Your Blood second-part lyrics. 🙂
Ok who wants Sleeping Dogs?! Solid open world game (better than Watch Dogs!) with martial arts and classical music! Come on I know someone out there wants to be Bruce Lee while listening to Beethoven’s 5th.
Sorry man, I feel lke it’s my fault.
You’re the worst evilmonkey! =P You’ve never been the same since you… changed your name D=
Sleepy Dogs is a thing of beauty! Emma Stone is in it for three whole minutes! 😀
Also best open world city in a long, long time.
Post-apocalyptic urban decay?
If only, my friend. If only.
There’s a zombie outbreak DLC, that’s practically the same thing right?
Is there really? well time for me to check out Sleeping Dogs 😛 i’ve owned it for a long time but haven’t played it yet!
Well it’s more people being possessed by demons turning them into zombies, less the traditional zombie outbreak =p
Post-apocalyptic turban decay.
Sleeping Dogs is a rad game that also holds the distinction of being the only open-world GTA-style game that I actually finished.
I’ve wondered if it’s any good for a while now. When it first came out, I kept confusing it with Watch Dogs, for.. I guess obvious reasons. In the end, I couldn’t decide whether or not it would be as good as watch dogs was going to be, so I left it at that. Worth the purchase you reckon?
Sleeping Dogs was surprisingly good. There’s rough areas where you can visibly see where they simply ran out of time and money but the core gameplay and story are completely solid.
Hey everyone. Sorry I haven’t been around since… like … last year? Things have been fairly busy I guess??
I DIGRESS.
Just wanted you all to know I’m departing the SS Allure at the end of the week, heading for new lands and treasure. It’s been such a great run, and the SS Allure is a great ship. They serve shrimps and sweet berry wine!
I didn’t want to miss the opportunity to say thanks for being such a great community — for real. You guys and girls are part of why I worked so very hard to get things stable as network growth exploded towards the end of last year.
There have been a few rough patches that have effected you guys in particular — the most dedicated users — and I feel bad about that. So – sorry, thanks, and kisses. Rob and Adam will still be here, silently working their magic in the background. Who knows, I might even have time for a bit of TAY now 🙂
P.S.
You’re welcome.You’re one of the good Bens.
That’s the second time you’ve stolen one my patented lines!
Really?Edit: WHAAAAAAT.
Holy crap are spoilers working?!
really? ARE THEY REALLY?EDIT – Well f**k me it worked!
Ben White! YOU CAN’T LEAVE US :'(
i wish you all the best in your future endeavours!
I miss you already! :'(
Hope the future treats you great, buddy!
Love how you’re just BAM! spoilertags! 😀
Thanks for all the hard work and putting up with us. I hope your next venture is everything you’re hoping for. *hugasaurus*
You’re the best Ben. Good luck for when you depart Allure.
BEST GOING AWAY PRESENT EVER.
Cheers for all the hard work!
thanks for all of your work, Ben.
Now we can go back to routinely abusing the tags!
Great work Ben. Sad to see you go but glad it is under happy circumstances
Dear spoiler tag
We missed you
Don’t ever leave us like that again
Love
All of TAY
Fb ybat, naq gunaxf sbe nyy gur svk!
…nz V qbvat vg evtug?
Hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhetu…
<3HtuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuMhtmhtwhowhoHooray! Apart from the leaving thing but I guess its for a better job so I suppose that’s good too. Well I suppose it might be going on the run after a bank job or something more nefarious but I’m oddly optimistic today.
Thanks for fixing the spoiler tags, I hate rot13 so much…
Wait a minute in the spoiler tag excitement, the most important part got missed
ONE OF US, ONE OF US, ONE OF US, ONE OF US, ONE OF US, ONE OF US, ONE OF US, ONE OF US, ONE OF US, ONE OF US, ONE OF US, ONE OF US, ONE OF US, ONE OF US, ONE OF US, ONE OF US, ONE OF US, ONE OF US, ONE OF US, ONE OF US, ONE OF US, ONE OF US!
Thanks for all your hard work man, good luck and have fun.
HERO. <3
(Heh. Mic-drop for the win.)
This guy. Being all rad and such.
ogm! A heartfelt goodbye post featuring a working spoiler tag! This guy!!!!!!! You will be missed Ben! What ever is Mark going to do without the likes of you?!!?!
Wishing you all the best in your next venture!
Come back soon and good luck on the grand sea, keep looking for that treasure at the end of the rainbow my friend
Something sentimental about spoiler tags and everything you’ve done…DONT FORGET US!!
If you’re not watching SGDQ you’re not living, people speedrun games for a week straight, for Doctors Without Borders (yay charity \o/)
https://gamesdonequick.com/
They really should run the event for only 6 days, and then explain it’s because they reckon they can beat the old record of 7.
They’re doing oneweek% bit of a niche category, but more people run it 😛
I’ve been trying to speedrun Champion Road for the last few weeks now. I’ve had my fill.
(but I’m not done yet ;_;)
I run the PS1 version of A Bug’s Life (37:18, record is 22:xx) and Atlantis: The Lost Empire (1:46:xx, that’s the fasted time I know of)
LOL, nobody runs AtlantisSo now we have spoiler tags back,
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What would dinoking do?Edit: Epic comment by Tigerion =p
@steve-o_the_deve-o @tech_knight @crazyguy1990
Torchlight 2 Thursday evo?
Sounds good to me!
@pupp3tmast3r
Oh yeah, you too man. D:
Thursday is my birthday, and while I don’t have any plans at the moment – I’m likely to be whisked away to a ‘surprise’ dinner, as happens every year when I say I don’t want to do anything for it 😛
Fair call, happy birthday in advance!
Do you want to pick another day?
For a second I thought you said that Torchlight 2 was coming to EVO 2014. That would have been an odd choice.
Might make it actually interesting though 😛
@blaghman @novacascade @mythamphetamine @mawt @popdart5 @tech_knight
NUMENERA: TALES OF THE NINTH WORLD
You’ve reached the Spinneret, the tower at the centre of the Insidious Choir. What do?
WED 7:30 SA TIME
ALSO STREAMING
Nuke it from orbit. It’s the only way to be sure.
I feel like Mario Kart night should be moved! 😀
Edit: Oh wait, this is for Wednesday. Disregard. XD
It’s Mario Kart Mondays, yes?
Yeah, sorry man. Misread your post. XD
DON’T YOU TOUCH MARIO KART NIGHT! >:(
Mondays like the only guaranteed night I can join :'(
You can still hate me. I run Pathfinder on every alternate Monday.
Haha, that’s what confused me! I remember thinking this the other week! 😀
@pixel_the_ferret_viking @doc_what
Did you guys actually see the MK8 video I uploaded? I don’t know if I uploaded it correctly, but when I looked at it in MiiVerse it’s just some crummy screenshot and not the replay! The screenshot isn’t even of me D:
But in the video I was in 3rd place and used a star and hit the 2nd place person just as they were about to cross the finish line. I definitely 100% crossed the finish line before them (or at least it looked like it) but they somehow still got 2nd while spinning in the air! Wahhhhh :'(
Imma have to check that out when i get home!
It was you and Doc that Yeah!’d it wasn’t it? I think replays can only be seen through MKTV/in-game. Might have to upload it to YouTube then!
Just curious as to whether I did it right 😀
I only saw the screenshot, but i thought it was very telling as it looked like Princess Peach had just been hit by something inches before the finish line 😛
and all i thought was “Yeah, sounds like Mario Kart” and so it got a “Yeah!” 😛
That wasn’t even me or related to the video 😛 :'(. Might have to reupload :D…
aaaww… Well i’m not taking my “yeah!’ back!
I just got a screenshot. 🙁
I’ve been getting into a fun little habit in Dota: win lane, lose game. In a lot of the games I’ve been playing, they start out well and then somehow the person or people that were were crushing early managed to turn around and become beastly. Yet somehow when I have a bad start, there’s no recovery.
Until yesterday, where I finally lost the lane and won the game. I’d prefer to win the lane and win the game but it was really nice to have the shoe on the other foot.
Play super hard carries?
It seems the trick is playing carries that can fight with just a few items and then go back to farming. TPing into a tower, dropping an ult, getting a double kill and then resuming farm does wonders for getting you ahead. Who’d have thunk it?
So basically: be good, don’t be not good.
Win lane, lose game, yeah happens to most of us I’m sure. Though for me I know it means I didn’t do enough to help my team which I’m still learning on when to leave the lane to gank, take more objectives rather than farm more, etc.
Want to go home, so god damn booooored at work :\
On a seperate note, 31 people upvoted Ben White’s comment… 3…1!
and checking the names i know pretty much all of them!
I know people! i’m scared!
Other than @highperformance, whom I don’t think has been around very long, I know them all too (As online peeps)
Hooray!
Yep same, and all of them i count amongst friends… now as one that was a social outcast all the way through school with maybe 2 people tops as friends at any one time, it’s baffling XD
Also HI @highperformance, Stay awhile and listen!
TAY is awesome.
You’re all good folk.
Except @dc, whom I won’t ever forgive over the building thing.
I kid, @dc’s great folk 🙂Someone… possibly @strange… and someone else… possibly… someone else… admired buildings today.
Was it concrete rubble? i bet it was concrete rubble!
That’s the beauty of it, man. ALL BUILDINGS WILL BE POST APOCALYPTIC URBAN DECAY SOME DAY.
Edit: Another response would’ve been Fed Square is in Melbourne!
Yeah you should totally come down to admire Post Apocalyptic Urban Decay in progress, aka Fed Square \o/
I had lunch with @dc today and everything we did was building-related!
Geez… first @dc lets people love him through Steam by accepting gifts, and now he’s admiring buildings?
You’ve changed @dc, you’ve changed!
And we love you the same \o/Want some rye? Course ya do!
Thanks! I’ve been lurking about a year now but only just recently found a browser that would let me register an account lol.
He was like “@jimu can I buy that game” and jemu was all “yeah” and then he was all “thanks for sending me the game!”
THE END
…I think that was him anyway 😛
we did business
That was me! The game in question is sitting on in my pile of shame unfortunately though, @jimu does his business like a gentleman sending it so quickly!
It’s worse when there is upvotes in TAY from people you don’t know.
Then it is all glancing at the window knowing that just behind the curtain they are there, watching, waiting
Hi Lurkers *wavey*
Eh, people can lurk on my dysfunctional relationships and character flaws all they want XD
…
*unbuttons shirt*
They might even like what they see
Well, we all do *wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiik*
Aaaaaand now I can’t UN-think it.
but why would you want to?
Erections eventually get inconvenient?
See, that’s intended as a joke, but I tellya… there’s been times for NO REASON WHATSOEVER I’ve been pretty damn uncomfortable for way too long.
I’d say it’s even worse when you get a downvote from someone you don’t know! =O
Who’s this guy?
Oh, nobody
*sobs*
Obligatory placeholder so I can get to new TAY via profile with minimal link following.
*ahem* So… How’s things?
I got a new role at work and I’ve dived straight into the deep end. Feels like I’m doing as much in one week as I’ve previously done in a year. Fun fun.
Still just zoning out and smashing monsters in Monster Hunter most weekends. I think it’s become my new Minecraft-like distraction. (Not that the game is alike, just the mental processes behind me zoning out)
I’ve also resisted and bought nothing from Steam yet this sale. Got 2 cards from voting so far, might see if I can help anyone finish their badge once the end of the sale rolls around.
OR, the other way around!
…I really can’t back that up until my trading restriction is removed in like… four days or something? I checked, at least it’ll be before the sale ends.
You can dig giant holes in Monster Hunter? 😛
I’m guessing I’d get back into the hunting mood closer to MH4U’s launch. Save some monsters for me 😀
Smashing the lower stuff to get more parts for gear I don’t need but want to make for the sake of it (ALL THE ARMOUR AND AXES), or all those harvest tours, yeah, about as mentally disconnected as digging a hole.
I should probably stop before it gets too close to MH4 or I’ll be sick of it once there’s the shiny new game. But not today.
I love going through Steam’s activity log:
“So-and-so now owns 2 more games”
or
“evilmonkey now owns 12 more games” :O
Yeah, that evilmonkey guy has way too many games.
OR… not enough!
gamz
r
awsum?
totes
sauce
So far I have cards 2, 8, 9 and 10 from the steam sales thingy. I have 2 copies of card 2 though. Anyone wanna trade for one I don’t have?
I have doubles of cards 1, 4, 6, and 7.
I need 2 and 9.
request sent!
Thanks man, sorry it took me ages to accept the trade, but you sent it when I was just heading off to work, accepted it as soon as I got home, thanks man.
All good! I got another double last night, but by the looks of it, it’s a card you already have.
It’s all good, I got enough cards to craft my level 5 badge, only need another 5 to craft a level 6.
Ah cool! I think I got a double of 8. wanna swap it for card 1, 6 or 7?
Sure, but I’ve gotta head off to work again, so I’ll do it when I get home about 8:30pm.
@evilmonkey no rush! Cheers though! I’ll send the trade soon!
Just so you know.
I’ve done it.
Swapped over my comic book fund into my gaming fund. No longer will I be partaking in monthly floppies, but instead I will have $50 / month of free games spending money.
It’s done. Starting Jimuly.
How’s that PS4 fund going dude?
Stuck at $350
birthday next month though
Damn, I wish you all the best! What games you looking to get for it?
Dragon Age(traded $85 toward it E3 weekend), Metal Gear Vs and Psycho Break (The Evil Within) for physical.
Prolly some other digital titles.
Remote play has me interested in stuff I’d normally skip cos I wouldn’t have the time without it.
Awesome, sounds like you know what you want.
I never see you on Twitter anymore. Did my account stop following you?
Not a clue, I don’t twitter much (read basically not at all) any more tbh. But i’m there still. My acc did unfollow Freeze and a lot of others for some reason, a while ago. Not that I ever recall who was following me on Twitter apart from two specific musicians 😛
Prolly Mortal Kombat X
Nothing quite like a man with a plan! *nods approvingly*
Upvote for Jimuly!
Upvote for upvote for Jimuly!
Remember when you used to say “upvote for ____” and never upvoted? :'(
No. Ha ha! Thats a good one though. I’d upvote myself for that if I could. What a guy!!
When voting was first introduced you could up/downvote yourself 😀
Why would they remove that option? :p
Abused too much by me 😀
Actually, I think I did that because my phone doesnt load up the upvote button
less funny… :-/
Oh… god…
I’m not sure how much of this I have discussed on TAY, Probably a lot. I am scheduled to receive an endoscopy, which is a colonoscopy for your throat. That does not seem pleasant. No idea when.
There is also the nose operation. Mum wanted to have it scheduled in July. But due to complications, it’s happening THIS WEEKEND. Right after Mum told me this, my phone rang. I got to dodge the topic for a few more minutes.
I had to face the reality when I hung up the phone, though. HOLY SHIT IT’S THIS WEEKEND. PANIC PANIC PANIC.
There was some other stuff that happened this morning but I’ve forgotten it all under the fear of what lies five days from now. HOLY SHIT IT’S FIVE DAYS I THOUGHT IT WAS SIX.
My dad had one of them endoscopy’s when he lost most of his blood due to a stomach bleed (which the doctor could not find the source of) he said it’s sort of unpleasant, but they give you a numbing spray so you have no gag reflex sorta dealy..
Good pep talk! 😛
Glad your dad’s okay!Edit: Oh, after reading that it’s not as dire as it read in my head. I thought you said it CAUSED the bleed. D:
Haha, silly DC 😛
Yeah was a scary thing have happen. He was fine the next day apart from being like 3 or so litres down on blood lol.
No gag reflex spray?
Do you remember what it was called, by chance?
Purely just out of curiosity…
No sorry I wasn’t present when the doctor was administering it. I can see the use outside the medical field and know a few people who would thoroughly love to use it apart from yourself 😛
Hahaha, I was only joking anyway!
Should’ve put a “:P” in there, haha!
Haha, sure sure 😛
Oh liondrive, you are a naughty boy, aren’t you :p
I’m 20, what else would you expect from me? 😉
It tastes awful and honestly I don’t think it would be useful for the purposes you guys are expecting. It often ends up numbing other parts of the mouth…
You’ll be unconscious for the nose op won’t you? That’ll be easy at least, I managed to make it through having several wisdom teeth extracted at 8:30am with only local anaesthetic (something like 6 needles in my gums) so I was conscious and hearing the teeth crack out.
You’ll do okay dude, just stay calm and it’ll be grand. Think of all the cheap games you’ll be able to play while recovering!
Awwww, I thought you were getting a colonoscopy :'(
An endoscopy is far less funny :'(
You’ll be fine anyway, don’t stress, just close your eyes, open wide, and take it like a man 😉
Wow, we really need to get to Page 18 this week.
You’ll be fine. Just follow your post-op instructions to the letter. If they tell you to take pain meds, take them. If you have a nose spray, use it. You’re young! You’ll recover fast and feel awesome in no time.
All of my wut.
Okay so it looks like pax meat cupcakes are having the go ahead.
Does anyone have allergies to banana, raspberries, chocolate or peppermint?
Are colouring’s okay to use?
Is that a euphemism?
I dunno.. Bacon flavoured cup cakes could be awesome.
I was just thinking that Meat Cupcakes could be a pretty tasty thing…
But then i thought, isn’t Stuffed Capsicum just Meat Cupcakes in disguise?
I dunno. You gotta deal with capsicum and they’s a horrible fruit!
They’s the best fruit!
Other than tomato, anyway.
Not when it gives you horrible indigestion for a day or two after 😛
Make meatloaf mix. Put it in a muffin tin. Cook until cooked and tada! Meat Cupcakes!
no?
Everything is ok for me \o/
Cause he’s just that kind of guy! *decisive nod*
No allergies here so all clear
Generally I find when making cupcakes for a large unknown group, just go for it and tell everyone that ALL the bad things are in it – eggs, dairy, sugar, gluten, artificial colours, trans fats in the frosting and probably nuts too. I used ALL THE COLOURS for @doc_what ‘s rainbow birthday cupcakes a while back.
Almost 2 years ago now since those cupcakes! :'(
Guys! Farming Simulator 2013 Titanium Edition is on sale for $7! *froths at mouth*
…
I’m sorry. I don’t know what happened there. Won’t happen again.
You take that back! Farming Sim 2013 is a bitchin’ game I got like 20 hours sunk into that masterpiece of gaming!
Seriously the co-op is stupidly fun. Especially when you try and be serious and actually farm!
I love that you know this.
I have FOUR, count them four farming sim style games. Farming Simulator 2011 & 2013 along with Agricultural Simulator: Historical Farming & Professional Farmer 2014.
All better than Woodcutter Simulator 2013..
Helppppppppp pls
Has anyone used dry shampoo? (or know anyone who has?)
From my understanding (Googling) it appears to be a spray that should remove that oily feeling from your hair. I got myself a can but there’s a picture on the can that says it can be used for styling, so now I’m just worried it’s going to end up like hair spray/wax/gel and make it more… uh sticky?
I had an operation on my ear today so I can’t wash my hair for a week. I hate that super oily hair feeling so I’m hoping that this will remove it and not make it worse. Thankssss
My time to shine! 😀
If you’re gonna do waterless washing, it’s better to try and grab the shampoo / conditioner that is rub / leave in, as opposed to the spray stuff.
Spray stuff is generally more styling focused, meaning that it doesn’t clean particularly well (especially if you plan to use it for a week), so you’ll get better results from leave in conditioner.
Also, you’d need to use a fair whack of spray to get a good clean out of it anyway.
Don’t use it super often, maybe every second day, since if you can’t have a shower it’ll just build up in your hair, which’ll make it worse the longer you use it.
So basically, I’d go rub / leave in conditioner.
Would the spray shampoo not work at all then and leave that styling residue?
Can you please link me to an example of the rub/leave in shampoo/conditioner (so I have an idea of what I’m looking for). I’m assuming haircare stores? Supermarkets? Chemists?
Thanks 😀
EDIT: ooh, forgot to mention my hair is fairly short.
Oh, if it’s short short hair then the spray shampoo should work fine for a few days, but you will probably get a residue-y feeling towards the mid to end of the week.
If you’ve already got one then I wouldn’t actually worry about getting anything else.
I would avoid using any products in your hair as much as possible to be honest, since you can’t wash it out it’ll only get built up in your hair.
Use the spray, but try to use it only when you need to (no more than 3 times).
If the residue-y feeling sets in quickly, then I’d get a leave in conditioner, again, using it as little as possible, so only to try and get rid of the residue feeling when it sets in.
All these dry washing / leave in / spray on products are designed to be washed out eventually, so use as little product as possible!
And if you do pick up a leave in conditioner, make sure it’s a liquid one and not a spray on one (I’d link, but there’s too many :S). Chemists stock them, or places like Priceline 🙂
I can wet my hair if absolutely necessary, just not the wound, but I’d rather not :P.
Last time my hair was kinda long (by my standards) and I just used a wet cloth to try and get out some of the oilyness… it didn’t work! 😛
I can see you needing to wet your hair before the week is over.
Even if you use a damp cloth, then dry cloth, then spray in shampoo, if you want to use it nightly, just to get the old spray out of your hair.
That would stop build up, and probably give you the best hair possible without showering.
Shave.
With the stuff you bought it should work for what you want if you spray it on before going to bed and then comb out the residue in the morning, giving it extra time to remove the oily feeling you don’t like.
It’s more the oilyness at night when I’m sleeping on it (yuck!). So I’m thinking of doing it before going to bed/in the evening.
The spray shampoo is pretty good – it’s like spraying a bit of powdery hairspray into your hair to blot the oiliness and give your hair a bit of fluff. It’s not a subsitiute for a wash, but ok to get you through a couple of days. Give your hair a really good brush before bedtime. You could also try a bit of cornflour rubbed in. Apply to the roots, not the ends.
Take the opportunity to free yourself from daily shampoo washing. Lots of people don’t use them at all (just wash with water and give your scalp a good massage), or only once a week. The idea is that shampoo strips your natural hair oil and triggers a vicious cycle of oily-> wash -> dry scalp -> oily -> wash… My 3 year old’s hair gets washed about once a fortnight (usually just gets a splash of water each day) and his hair is beautiful!
I did the shampoo thing once a fortnight once with longer hair. Didn’t end up going well 😛
Whats wrong with your ear?
You an elf that got the points shaved off?
Excision of preauricular sinus!
Sinus in the ear?
You know it!
Something I was born that just looks like a pierced ear (a little hole). It’s pretty rare but not super rare. They can get infected and one of them did a couple of years ago so I had surgery to get them removed 6 months ago but one of them got infected again so I had to go to the hospital and get the procedure done again UGH!
Just put everything from my steam inventory on the market place apart from my trading cards.. My phone has not stopped going off with emails, I think I regret this decision.
Yeah, my last trading binge I had hundreds and hundreds. MASSIVE pain in the ass, I couldn’t figure out a way to stop it. I think there might be something in the marketplace, I think I made SOME progress on that front, but I forget what it is. It was probably a very minor victory, whatever it was.
Yeah, oh well it gave me enough funds to buy the trading cards I needed and by the time the rest of it sells probably a game or two haha.
Hello, sometimes i post things here!
Anyway, i bought a copy of Battleblock theatre for my friend, as he’s bought some stuff for me, but annoyingly one of my other friends Cock-Blocked (Geddit!) me and already got him a copy of it, so i now have a copy available for whoever would like it on steam. 🙂
Move along
Subtle 😉
I meant I wouldn’t be surprised if people ended up with doubles of games that they tried to gift to one another.
I would much rather pay for it myself. If I can’t afford it, then I miss out, simple as that. No big deal.
Gift spree for scree
Gift scree for spree
No.
Aww 🙁
My leave was accepted! 😀
I’ll have to start booking things tomorrow!
Does anybody know of any good places to stay in Brisbane? Doesn’t have to be super cheap or anything, but just somewhere kinda nice, I guess, haha!
Pretty excited! 😀
I know a tool shed you can sleep in!
It’s not mine!
And by that I mean YESSSSSSSS. 😀
I’m content sleeping anywhere, haha!
Point me towards this tool shed! 😀
You would like a shed full of tools 😛
We usually stay here when we book a place in brisbane for the night.
http://www.adinahotels.com.au/adina-apartment-hotel-brisbane/hotel
It’s quite nice with a great view over the river and down the Story Bridge. About $150 a night so not particularly cheap.
As I said before my place is always available but it’s Gold Coast not Brisbane but Brisbane isn’t hard to get to (Think Freo/Perth type thing) if you want to go super cheap (free).
Thanks man, but I wouldn’t feel right crashing at your house for my entire trip, haha!
Maybe a couple of nights though, if that’s alright?
Freeze has a dog that likes snuggling come night fall if it seals the deal. 😛
I do love puppies…
Staying at someone’s house for just over a week is a bit invasive for my likings, even though I’d spend most of the day out of the house.
I’ll have to look at motel / hotel bookings and see what’s available, then go from there first 😛
Yeah, can’t recommend any thing alas cause I’ve never had to stay at a Brisbane hotel. Maybe some of the out of towners who have visited can recommend something?
The usual suspects around the Brisbane CBD/South Bank should be good though. I think Freeze has stayed at Rydges South Bank which is pretty central?
Mantra South bank. I wouldn’t recommend it.
Ooooh. See, I’m not the guy to recommend stuff. Haha!
As long as you’re comfortable with is no problem at all.
I’ll look at what’s in my price range / what’s available, and then get back to you 🙂
I was gonna ask if I could crash at yours on the 4th, 5th, and 6th, cause I was thinking of just flying into the Gold Coast rather than Brisbane, so it would be nice to explore The Gold Coast a bit before going to Brisbane 🙂
Thanks again man, it’s incredibly generous of you 🙂
That would be no problem at all. Bunch of people should be staying night of the 5th if things go as normal.
Normal means pass out drunkingly on couch. 😛
I’m looking forward to/terrified of meeting you!
SHOPPING SPREE!
That’s confirmation that you want to go shopping by the way 😉
You’ll enjoy yourself, that’s a Stewie guarantee 😉
*fakes death*
I’m looking forward to meeting you too 🙂
You’ll have to show me around Brisbane, ok? 🙂
This is our McDonalds!
Expedia
Thanks a bunch! 😀
This’ll definitely come in handy! 🙂
I live here, so NO.
But eager to meat yoo & drunked
(unless you spend the entire time in one of our gyms…)
Haha, it wouldn’t be a holiday if I spent all the time at the gym 😛
Might do some situps / pushups, but no gym for me ;D
And I’m eager to meet you too 🙂
You say that now…
Turns out Onion Dino Horde isn’t much fun playing solo 😛 Damn raptors overwhelming me! I’ll wait until the next playdate!
ps. Primal Carnage is (hopefully) going to be on the Community Sale next! You should look into it! It’s a Dinos vs Humans deathmatch thing!
*Waits for Pow to buy it for me*
It didn’t win anyway, you’re safe 😛
Sounds like Primal Rage
I really hate being a perfectionist sometimes. Everything has to be done just right or else not at all.
Surely it’s more a case of it has to be done just right or done over and over and over again until it’s just right
It takes up so much time D=
@transientmind and other anime TAYfriends: since we were talking about upcoming anime earlier today, here’s a chart (~3mb warning). Hotlinking directly because I tried re-hosting it but it’s too big so all the hosting sites resize it down and you can’t read anything. 🙁
Early stuff that seems interesting to me glancing through: I know I’ll be watching SAO II, Sailor Moon, the final bits of -monogatari, Kantai Collection, whatever the heck this Persona 4 anime is and both Prisma Ilya and Hamatora’s continuations. Also because I know myself far too well I suspect I’ll end up watching some combination of Rail Wars, Akame ga Kill, Aldnoah.Zero, Sabagebu, Himegoto, Blade Dance, Glasslip, Hanayamata and possibly a couple of others.Also regarding your desire for stuff where people work their differences out like normal people and so on, Glasslip might be your thing maybe? It’s PA Works and one of their strengths as a studio is doing stuff with a lot of simple interpersonal drama that’s written in a really natural way. Don’t know how else to describe it. But it might also be terrible. Who knows? Exciting!
Free: Eternal Summer and Hanamonogatari….
\o/
Which one is violent?
Who knows? Maybe none of them. Japan doesn’t produce as much really violent gory anime any more as TV censorship on a lot of the bigger networks has tightened significantly since the 90s when that sort of stuff was prevalent.
awwwwwwwwwwwww I like Monster City 🙁
I may or may not have three copies of 100% Orange Juice which I purchased on a whim on Steam because the title of the game amused me and it said ‘board game’ in the description. I have no clue if it’s good or bad.
Any
victimsvolunteers want a copy so you can test it out and tell me if it sucks?Since it has multi you may as well all test it out at the same time. Fun times are guaranteed 😀
Just watched the first episode of Dominion. It didn’t suck.
Tank Police?
Got yet another call from jobfriend on the way to climbing tonight. Turns out the bossguy has some kind of training on tomorrow which he didn’t realise was all day long.
Further day of reprieve, don’t start til Wednesday now! \o/
Also there was potential new Climb Girl tonight. Felt I should mention it since it’s been so quiet on that front lately 😛
Though with the looming change of schedule I don’t know whether I’ll be climbing Mondays any more, so who knows whether there’ll be any follow-up. But I guess if I end up with a four-day week…
Are you sure the old Climb Girl wasn’t recast, Soap Opera-style?
*grabs popcorn*
So I decided to check out the show ‘The Hunt’ on the weekend because James Hetfield (singer of Metallica) is narrating series and it sounded interesting from how it was pitched. It is nothing like it was pitched as.
It’s meant to be about Kodiak Island in Alaska and the Kodiak bears, that part is true. How ever it was also meant to be about how some years the bears that inhabit the island become over populated and threaten eating out their food source and they’re culled ethically to keep numbers at a safe level. This part was not true in the slightest. All I got from it was “We’re Americans, we have guns and we’re allowed to kill things!” one girl who claimed she wasn’t a girly girl, yet was wearing pink camo got frightened by a deer in a bush so she fired upon it without even thinking, to me that was just irresponsible :/ and the rest were on the war path with the bears because the bears invaded the farming land and slaughtered the live stock.. Not sure what I expected from such a show honestly.
On the bright side, James Hetfield should narrate more TV shows, his voice is awesome for it.
HEY HEY HEY! Here’s a bear, here’s a bear agaiiin!
QUICK SHOOT IT!
Those arent reworked Metallica lyrics in a bear theme 🙁
00:50
Oh LOL. Brain not working, did stocktake today at the volunteer job so I am kinda switched off 😛
Owch. I’d really have preferred if it was pitched as “GUNS GUNS SHOOTIN’ STUFF YEEEEEAAAAH!” and turned out to be an exercise in thoughtful responsibility while curating the majesty of nature.
That’s horribly depressing.
Yeah it is, and sad that Hetfield willingly attached his name to it, it hasn’t gone down well with the people who aren’t for the whole hunting thing..
Off to bed.
Goodnight.
On a profile page near you. Temp fix for very long standing and pretty goddamn annoying bug 🙂
No, I didn’t try and click that image “button”. Who said I did?
Better?
Hm. Maybe worse.
Sadly no luck. 🙁
Every time I see that “1” next to my name I get reminded that someone replied to me on an article that was de-published. More than the number (which I’ve gotten used to) it’s just that I have no idea what the dude said!
Weird! Might have timed out. Just did a manual fix for you from my end.
WOOO.
I saw a 1 next to my name and it was an ACTUAL NEW REPLY.
+1 😀
An image in a comment?
WHAT SORCERY IS THIS
Should be “Serrels all as read”
So there seem to be all manner of taybies heading to PAX. Is there a fb group or something where PAX Meat details, cosplay, etc is getting shared?
No, but if you start one, I’ll join it.
@scree and @tech_knight are the grand marshals of Pax Meat atm.
There’s still a Kotaku AU closed facebook group – perhaps it just needs to be revived. @scree and @tech_knight – I think @welbot started that fb group?
I did indeed start the group. It’s invite only, but anyone who’s a member should be able to invite others (obviously I don’t have all the TAYbies on fb, so if you’re a member, feel free to invite TAYbie’s who aren’t members!)
Sorry.
It’s the 1st of November, 7:00pm, at Strike bowling.
Thanks!
So I’m behind the times on this, I know, but I finally finished watching Frozen. Apart from the song we’re all sick of listening to and it being quite pretty, there’s one big thing about it that I really like.
The “true love” isn’t some guy coming along to save Anna with a magic kiss like the old fairy tales. While a lot of the dialog was a bit cheesy and stilted and the movie didn’t explore the themes very deeply (and let’s face it, it was never going to while still engaging kids) I like the way it made an effort to defy expectations. Anna’s character arc felt a tad abrupt since she was still waiting for Hans or Christof to kiss her and unfreeze her heart up until the moment she jumped in front of Hans’ sword, but the fact she did so, and that it was ultimately Elsa’s love that saved her, was an extremely welcome ending.Sure, they still linked Anna and Christof up at the end, but I’m glad that them falling in love wasn’t the sole magic solution to the story’s problem.
I like the part at the beginning where Anna sings, ‘okay bye.’ So cute.
Evening All!
so I posted for some recommended titles last week and wanted to say thanks to everyone who gave me a response. I’ve bought them all and will be working through them slowly but surely. To whomever recommended me torchlight.
hmmm… I missed the diablo craze (spent about 10 mins playing any of them.) I must admit I started out going “what sort of game is this?” I seemed to just be left clicking all over the place. things blew up in pretty colours, and I got stuff.
2 Hours later I have no idea what it was, but I was clicking all over the shop killing things with a manic grin…
“How can this be a game?” I thought. I have next to no idea what I’m doing or why, and I can’t seem to either die or figure out why on earth I chose a class. (for some reason I’m usually a grunt, or melee fighter, probably something to do with mages always being overpowered in my opinion. Yet here my melee guy doesn’t give a darn about guns or weapons.) Yet I can’t quit the damn thing… more monsters, more squishing, and I couldn’t be bothered going back to town. I have a mountain of gold but want nothing. It’s the strangest game I’ve ever played outside of Qbert, yet I keep wanting back in…
Maybe the guys who made Y’s had a point on combat play styles. In the meantime, Carpal tunnel here I come!
P.S. Also sorry to all for missing the HOMM session Unexpected family issues got me caught up in their grasp. still keen for that or Civ 5 or anything anyone else wants a lash at, I’ll probably just have to wait till after EOFY as I’m shockingly busy this week.
SO glad I’m no longer in a role which goes berserk in the lead up to EOFY. I swear, last year there were times that I might as well have just slept in the office and used the shower downstairs.
So while Big W have the mightily tempting retro TMNT toys just like I had as a kid for a paltry $7.50 each in the coming sale… today I was passing through Toys R Us and spotted these guys who look a whole lot cooler (though are a whole lot pricier). And TRU has a printable 20% off voucher for this weekend… but do I really want to spend $80 on a bunch of toys for no real reason at all?
Probably.It would be totally stupid to do so.
And as the fiscal irresponsibility fairy, it’s my job to agree that you have to buy them.Well I guess I do have a job now…
I want the retro ones!!
Quoting myself from page 3: “The best thing about being an adult: buying better versions of the toys you had as a kid. \o/”
Just watched the hurst half if Geordie Shore season 4…yep…it’s certainly a thing
I love Geordie Shore! 😀
It’s not as good as Jersey Shore, or Jerseylicious, but it’s still great 😀
Mate, Geordie Shore is great.
You know what, I agree,
One of the guys at work used to watch that and the valleys at Lunch and as i was bored I joined him. Its like when you watch 4 episodes of Home and Away in a row. The shitness stops mattering and you just want to know whats happening with everyone. Its the same pleasure when a friend tells you about another friend.
1 episode is rubbish
4 they start being okay
10 You realize your mistake, but cant break free
20 You break free, but now know all the characters and you may as well be a fan.
There’s a line you cross with those kinds of shows where you just have to stop pretending you’re not enjoying it. I think everyone goes in expecting to hate it, but it’s just so compelling.
Anyone else having trouble logging in to Kotaku with IE, I can get to the site fine, but when I try to log in it won’t let me. Downloaded Chrome, and bam it let me log in instantly.
Edit: Anyone know a good alternative to Chrome? I’ve heard the Opera browser is s’posed to be pretty good.
That had to be a page get didn’t it. \o/
I hear chrome is pretty great.
😛
You’re a funny guy. Hey everybody come and listen to this guy, he’s hilarious :p
I was being a little sarcastic but ive only used chrome since its release and never had a issue.
I know, so was I, hence the “:p”, no offence intended. You’re alright rockets
There’s a large population in Townsville who do all their surfing in the parks. Chrome is the browser of choice.
I had some issues with Chrome a couple years ago, but I switched to it after Firefox was routinely crashing some flash stuff, and it handles things the fastest of the big 3. (Yes. IE, Firefox, Chrome. People pooh-pooh IE, but if something doesn’t work on Firefox or Chrome, there’s a very decent chance it WILL on IE. Being married to any one is crazy talk – they’re like guns in games. You might have a favourite, but they all have different purposes.)
Opera is alright. I’ve never been able to continue using it though. Firefox is pretty hit or miss these days. I mostly use Chrome when not at work.
I know that doesn’t help you in any way, but those are basically your major choices 😛 Try Safari maybe?
I’m having no trouble with IE11, what’s happening exactly, are there error messages at all or is it just going through the motions and not working at the end?
What version of IE? Any ad blocker kind of things? Cleared your cache?
Steam sale trading cards update:
I have 4, 5, 5, and 5.
Wanna trade? I can give you a 5 for a 5 😛
Yeah, hate it how you get so many doubles. I can give you 1, 3, 6 and 7, but I only need 9. I’ll send you a friend request shortly and send them to you.
FR sent.
Aaaaaaaand just looked at my profile. I haven’t played a steam game since February.
…Master race?
Sent you a trade offer (gift) a while ago man.
Trading is locked out of my mobile for a week, I can only respond from home it seems. Sorry.
That’s cool, they’ll be there waiting for you when you get home.
Question time.
First, Dark Souls is on sale on Steam, is it still broken because of GFWL, or is it all good now?
Second, just bought Magic: The Gathering 2014, I’ve also got some decks that I purchased about 12 months ago with the intention of teaching myself how to play, but I’ve got no-one to play with, so I didn’t get very far. Anyone interested in teaching a newbie how to play? @pupp3tmast3r? I know a few of the basics, like that you have to play a land card before you play any other card.
Thanks in advance
evilmonkey
Unfortunately the original Dark Souls still uses GFWL. =(
Still worth picking up if you haven’t played it though! I was actually hoping Dark Souls 2 to be on sale.
Just found out that apparently Microsoft isn’t shutting down GFWL.
There’s still time, the sale isn’t over yet.
AHA! I knew all that time and money I spent on Magic cards would eventually come in handy!
P.S. Are you referring to irl games or the steam game? If it’s steam a lot of the stuff’s automated (i.e. tapping your land cards for mana) irl has a bit more of a learning curve!
Basically each deck has 60 cards (usually around 20-30 land cards which act as mana). The type of land represents a type of mana (mountains are red, lakes/bodies of water blue, etc.). At the start of each turn you draw a card and can place down one land card if you have them in your hand. In order to use the mana from a land card you tap it (I.e. turn it sideways to shows its been used) and then cast a spell with that mana. This can include summoning monsters, casting spells so on and so forth! If I remember correctly you go from draw phase to placing land to Main Phase 1 (where you can summon creatures and cast spells) to Combat Phase then to Main Phase 2 (cast spells only I believe) and then finish your turn!
You can summon creatures in main phase 2.
In fact, you should be summoning creatures in main phase 2.
I was talking about both IRL and Steam. I’d love to play IRL, but I don’t know anyone that plays it, same with Cards Against Humanity, I want to buy it, but I don’t know anyone that would want to play it with me.
Thanks for the info man, I really appreciate it. I’d definitely be up for a game with you on Steam or IRL, if we ever meet (PAX maybe). But go easy on me to start with, I’m only learning.
Ooh, while typing this I just had a great idea. Haven’t been there for a while, but I recall on school holidays seeing kids in the library playing card games (don’t think it was Magic), maybe we could set up something at work with the room upstairs where people could come and play card/board games.
Does Horsham? have a FLGS?
What the hell is that?
Also, now everyone knows where I live \o/, if any of you are ever passing through feel free to drop me a line for a meat.
Friendly local game shop
Ah, there’s an EB Games, but I don’t think there are any card/board game shops. I think most people would get their cards from either EB, K-Mart or Toyworld (they’re the only places I’ve seen them), or off the internet.
Steam sounds good and PAX as well, and don’t worry about me going easy on you I haven’t played in years! Hence my incredibly rusty tutorial that red corrected =p I think I’m mixing parts of the Yu-Gi-Oh! system where you can only play spells in the 2nd main phase >.<
I think I grabbed the Magic 2014 steam game + all DLC’s a few weeks ago when it was on sale as well but I can’t even remember the basics of deck building at this stage =p
Yeah, just bought the gold edition this morning. We can learn together \o/
To be fair, that may be something they changed at some point.
The main reason you do it is so that you have your mana open for the combat phase, just in case your opponent tries something tricksy.
That’s kind of right. Magic has a very deliberate turn setup:
Untap: Resets your cards buy untapping and tapped cards. A tapped card is one that has been turned 90 degrees to indicate use (either by attacking or using an activated ability).
Upkeep: The “before you draw” bit of the turn. Instants and activated abilities can be played now and some cards have effects that trigger here.
Draw: Draw a card.
Main phase 1: You can play any type of card here (with a limit of one land per turn), your opponent can only play instants and activated abilities.
Attack phase: You declare attackers, your opponent can then assign blockers however they choose then damage is dealt. Instants and activated abilities can be used by either player.
Main phase 2: Same as main phase 1.
End of turn: any effects that say “at end of turn” trigger here. Either player can play instants or activated abilities.
End of turn (cleanup): The active player discards their hand down to 7 cards, if they have too many cards, and all permanents return to full health and anything that says “until end of turn” stops working.
Then there’s the whole priority thing. Magic uses a thing called “the stack” to work out what order spells and abilities trigger. The short version of it is “first in, last out”. Essentially, you stack the cards that are used and resolve them from top to bottom. The only thing that doesn’t use the stack is mana, which goes off immediately so that you can pay for things.
There’s a lot more to the game than that but it makes more sense once you just play it. One of the most important rules of the game is that if the text on a card overrules the basic rules of the game, the card wins out.
We’re now up by 20 with 275 votes! This is way beyond what I thought could happen. I am completely overwhelmed and grateful. This is truly unbelievable.
It’s alright mang, I did it for love.
Send any royalties to Happy Dude, 742 Evergreen Terrace…
Mmm, I think I’d be happier with the dollar.
Much lucks. 🙂
Are you ready to rock!?
I could rock.
Good.
I shared it, I don’t know if anyone actually liked it but helping \o/
@Masha2932 (hope I got that right)
Thanks for the game 😀
Just want to let you know that your encouragement with my game programming has meant a lot to me over the years 🙂 Haven’t made any small games recently though as I’m working on something bigger right now. I think I’ve briefly mentioned it before, but I’m going to ‘officially’ start showing it off/hyping it up within the next few weeks 😀 (Most likely at least. I’m pretty bad at sticking to time frames 😛 )
Is this the super secret project that I know about because I’m rad? 😀
Unfortunately, no. Super secret project keeps being the victim of distractions… One day though.
So how long until you’ve got your own booth at PAX?
I think we will see him there eventually, the kids got talent.
No doubt.
Thanks guys :3
@Rocketman I’m almost 20. You’re going to have to stop calling me kid one day soon 😛
Young Adult!
I’m 25 and I’m called a baby at work still
I’m 30 and I think everyone I work with is still older than me.
I’m actually the youngest yet most experienced in our Operations team in Cloud. Pretty cool feeling. I am basically the kid there, my old two-up manager knew me as the baby cuz I’m so young 😛
Hahaha!
Son, you’ll always be “kid” to us.
Remember, the rest of use are like, over 21. We’re practically knocking on death’s door.
I’m 23 and can already feel deaths grip on my shoulder
You know, I get it the same as you, big man, I only just broke 20 myself
You know what, screw officiality.
Here: http://www.indiedb.com/games/hack-or-die
I could use some feedback on what little I’ve got up on there so far (just a few screenshots and a small trailer). I set it up a week ago* just so it’d be ready in time for when I start showing it off (because it can sometimes take a while for new games to be approved on Indie DB)
*(actually 2 weeks ago it would seem. Boy time flies fast O_o )
That looks awesome! 🙂 Well done!
That looks totally rad.
I am a sucker for anything Tron-looking, so you’ve got my attention 😛
Keen.
No worries man, enjoy the game. You make good stuff so it’s easy for the encouragement.
Hack or Die looks nice. No idea about hacking stuff (i’m sure the game will have a tutorial and good learning curve) but I like the music.
Morning Tayberinos
I took a few days off work and had a mighty fine adventure on the dangerous streets of Hobart and the surrounding area. Highlights include being locked in the cool room of a bottleshop and breaking the door trying to get out, getting applauded by teenagers for my legit karaoke skills, and making friends with the grumpiest but also friendliest pair of cats while out for a stroll.
Tassie’s a beautiful place. Stayed with my aunt and uncle who live a street away from my old home on the top of a hill overlooking the bay. Also drove down to the Huon valley, which was completely submerged in fog and was probably the coolest thing to look at from a distance. Bloody freezing though. Oh! And I found out Strange grew up in the same area of Tassie that I did! Scary.
I missed the first few days of the Steam sale though, including Game Dev Tycoon for super cheap which I wanted D: Hoping it comes back in one of those bonus deals or whatever they are.
Um, I hope you’re all well and stuff. I am sad to be back at work.
I have never seen you and Strange together at the same time! WHAT IF YOU’RE JUST DIFFERENT PARTS OF SOME MULTIPLE PERSONALITY LIKE SITUATION!
– insert joke about Tasmanians here –
Glad you had a nice holiday with your family buddy. You deserve a break every once in a while. 🙂
Hope your trip was awesome man did you fly or boat over?
Flew over. Driving to the boat would’ve been an extra day on both ends – I’ve done that before many times, but never again. 😛
Also, thankyou for the game! You fiend!
Buy a boat and sail over, no more flights or driving \o/
In before @evilmonkey
Damn! Beat me to it :p
I used to live on top of a hill in Blackman’s Bay. We slid down that hill once when everything was snowed over. I miss Tasmania. 🙁
I’m scared because that’s exactly where I lived. o.0
Given that this is Tasmania, doesn’t that mean you guys are siblings or something?
When were you there? We moved to NSW in 1990. Isn’t that before you were even born? 😛
Last call, I promise!
@35 @alexpants @anonymous_pessimist @batgirl @batguy @cakesmith @cj @doc_what @effluvium-boy @fatshadylive @gingerchris86 @gorzilla @harli @hugo_the_hungarian_barbarian @morkai @markserrels @mrtaco @powalen @pupp3tmast3r @ruffleberg @shiggyninty
Friday. Find me in Kinokuniya (late afternoon/evening/after work?) probably buying another cookbook. Then food at Ichi-Ban. Then disband because we’re all old fogeys who should be in bed by 7PM. Or drinks, or whatever else. Maybe Gaytimes.
No! Wait! Amendment!
Gaytimes.
Definitely Gaytimes.
And then afterwards maybe you could buy some ice cream.
I’ll be there at 6pm!
I’ll be in the city about 5 on Friday if anyone else is.
hell, even if nobody else is, i’ll still be in the city about 5.
anyway, got a show to go to about 7-ish, so I cant hang around too long, but yeah…. i’ll come by & awkwardly wave at least.
Oh hey I should actually be in the city then.
Whats an Ichi Ban?
Bish has some language difficulties.
He’s talking about the Itchy Barn.
It’s a brothel.
Gay times at the Itchy Barn.
The itching is from the multitudes of STDs!
They’re like chicken pox right? – you can only get them once, and the sooner the better?
If you need to know you should check out strange’s blog
Dat early dinner…
I’ll try and make it.
I’ll be there for Gaytimes.
NOOOOO why this Friday :'( I’ve got end of month drinks at work and chances are that’ll drag on till about 9 or 10 D= WHAY DO I MISS ALL THE MEAT UPS?!
I will be on a plane to Melbourne at 4. WHAT DO, BISH!?
Eat a box of shapes in each others’ hnour!
But no butt waggle!?
Can’t make it. I’ll be on a plane to Thailand.
Fun fact about the Steam Summer Sale: there’s an obvious reason that one team is the standout winner each day: Reddit.
http://www.reddit.com/r/Steam/comments/28rpxj/
Credit for finding it goes to @cakesmith
I was wondering why the scores have been so weird. Should have suspected it would be something like this 😛
I don’t get the point of this team winning nonsense! It made sense on the first day but since then it’s just been team’s taking turns o.0 and they’re supposed to start fresh every day!
Yeah, by watching the “team progress” thing you can tell the winner is extremely predetermined.
lol and i got placed on the blue team… hopefully theres an achievement and a pitty prize for coming last almost every single day.
Our team’s day is today! Look at us flyyyyyy. :p
Honestly, I expected something sinister because Reddit usually makes me wish I had more middle fingers, but that’s actually pretty OK.
Just a quick shout out to Microsoft for getting my broken Xbone back to me (/replacing it) in 6 days (4 working days) from me sending it back to them and also including a months free xbox live for the inconvenience.
Although I expect that sort of service (don’t mean to sound like a douche), I really felt like they did a good job.
i think a three month live subscription would have been more favourable!
all jokes aside, they give out xbox live passes like crazy…
last time i called MS support, the guy says “ill send you an xbox live 1 month code for your inconvenience.” then after continuing our discussion, “ill send you another one” by the time i got off the phone, there were 5 1 month xbox live passes waiting on my email.
I finally finished Mass Effect 3 on the weekend. I bought it on release date, so it’s only taken me 2 years and 3 months. Haha. It was definitely a lot harder to get into than ME2. I found the scanning the system and then being chased by reapers a bit frustrating at times. I really missed the loyalty missions from ME2, those were some of the most fun and gave some great back story for some of the characters. Quite challenging towards the end, because of infinite spawning enemies creating a difficulty spike. I actually didn’t have a problem with the ending at all really. It had a few unintentional implications perhaps, but that didn’t ruin it for me. Note that I was playing the extended version, a little bit different to the original ending i know.
Having played the original and the extended edition, you really didn’t miss much of a change. That whole ending thing was blown so far out of proportion.
i found mass effect 3 to be exactly the same as mass effect 3!!!
\o/ \o/ \o/
Im sorry… i couldnt resist…. /o\
What exactly is the ABC doing that is enraging so many politicians? They’ve always reported on governmental wrongdoing but none of them have actively tried to shut them down before.
They’re reporting actual news. I know, how dare they? It’s truly disgraceful.
Apparently calling out the Libs on their bullshit is called “Leftist bias” nowadays…
Edit: Oh yeah let’s not forget it’s also un-Australian to call out your government on their bullshit, thanks evilmonkey!
Wait there’s a news channel out there now that actually reports news?!? Since when?!
nothing scares a conservative government more than an informed electorate.
& in this govt’s case in particular, given that it was formed on…. questionable information to say the least, anyone reporting actual facts is gonna be in their firing line.
Jokes aside though how is ABC being targeted? And by whom?
IIRC a few months ago Tony Abbott started saying that he wanted to shut down the ABC and that they were un-Australian.
Just read up on it. Ugh I hate politics. Why doesn’t Tony Abbott just walk around with an “I love Rupert Murdoch” badge. Does anyone even think our political leaders have any form of integrity or soul anymore?! -_-
There is no such thing as a good politician, they’re all scum.
smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/government-review-offers-secret-abc-downsizing-plan-20140623-3aoyo.html
i think its because they are the only station that remains independent with no government funding, and as such, they tell it like it is.
man i cant believe how much i used to watch ABC as a kid… Captain Planet, Twins of Destiny, Widget…. fuckballs that brings back memories.
No government funding?
All government funding.
forgive me my friend i am high on panadeine forte. you are correct sir…
Currently…
@rocketman, I hope I didn’t offend you before, I was only mucking around.
Sent you a Steam Friend Request.
I wouldn’t worry too much 😛
Hotrossssssssssssssssssssssssss
He’s totally taken offense to your snarky tone! Don’t try and mend bridges now you monster!!!
=PSpoiler tags work now \o/Hey guys, just a headsup:
My Minecraft Server has now been moved to an Aussie host based in Sydney. my previous host was based in the US on a gigabit server, which had great pings here in AU, but managed to get a decent deal on Stipe servers in Sydney, and lets face it, nothing beats the ping of a locally hosted server… so its moved there.
started a new world (previous one was running for 12+ months) however if anyone has anything they want to restore from previous world, or they want a copy of it, i’ve still got the backups.
Server address has changed, and anyone wanting me to re-add them to the new Whitelist just let me know.
also theres about 4 of us still active on a daily basis
I don’t even own minecraft..That’s my fun fact of the day
Neither do I.
Y U NO JUMP ON BANDWAGON?!?
(minor alteration to prevent people from picking up my lazy copy paste job!)
\o/
Y U NO JUMP ON BAND-WAGON?!?
soooooo tempting… but i got so much other shit to play, and i know if i pick this up i won’t play anything else for over a month XD
u know you want to…
Hnnnnnnnnnngggg
See below… Beavwa was suffering from that too, ive administered the same trreatment to you too…
whitelisting and server details…
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2014/06/talk-amongst-yourselves-282/comment-page-6/#comment-2776324
Hnnnnnnnnnngggg
do we need to call a doctor?!?
Server details and whitelisting should fix me right up for now…
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2014/06/talk-amongst-yourselves-282/comment-page-6/#comment-2776324
also, this new server will have no ops, and will strictly be set to survival mode only… not even i am opped on my own server. if we need to kick/ban anyone it will happen from console…
reasont for this is because it ruins the fun of minecraft. i think everyone would agree.
Hey @blaghman,
Any chance you have any dates for this proposed Can’d meat MK Whoisevenkeepingtrackanymore?
I’m just trying to come up with a few different plans for travelling that’s all 😀
You’d be lucky if he’s even decided on the location yet.
Well he has, Canberra :P… it’s not like it’s a big place, i just assumed meat on top of capital hill
fishburgers at the aquarium!
Right, yeah, tentatively, I’m gonna say the meat itself would be the 30th of August (I think I can shift it one weekend earlier or later if a great need arises). That said, Sydney people often turn up late Friday, and people are more than welcome to turn up early and crash at my place for a few days (I still feel a little bad that I forgot to explicitly offer that to the Melbournians last time, so they ended up at a hotel for a night).
So it’s cool to crash at your place?
that may or may not potentially be 4 or so people that i can carry, but i don’t want to just swamp your place XD
Have you been to a Can’d Meat?
We sleep on the floor all huddled together like rats.
For warmth
and love?
30th of August sounds like it could be a go. Have to take my own car though, there wouldn’t be enough room in your car for me, my wife, my son (and his child seat) and anyone else you’re taking. Plus we’d probably shoot over to Adelaide straight after for The Show.
Totally don’t expect to crash at Blaghs’s place either, more than likely stay in a hotel if we go.
That’s cool, i understand that… I’ll have to put a shoutout a little bit later to everyone else to register interest… I’ve estimated that if i get 4 people in the car, it’ll cost everyone around $40 in petrol
I heard there might be something on the week after that.
I may or may not have spread this across the office as little bit, getting some colleagues to vote XD
Legend. The number is still going up, which is amazing. I have no idea how high the second place band can go, surely not much higher now.
WOOOT KEEEN
KEEEEEEEEEEN.
COOOOOOOMMAAAAAAANDER
MMUUUSSSTTTTAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRDDDD!
I hate this cold weather. I don’t know how you guys have been handling it down south with the high winds but even Brisbane has been chilled quite a bit. Plus I’m getting a cold so sorry if I end up being grumpy.
Yeah it’s been icy cold winds in Melbourne today
I hate the cold with a passion. Always thought it was funny though when we lived in Brisbane about 13 years ago how in Winter you’d see everyone all rugged up, I always thought to myself “it’s not that cold”, I guess when you’ve spent most of your life in Adelaide Winter in Brisbane isn’t all that bad.
8 degrees, 34km/h icy wind and raining.
Canberra’s pretty pleasant.
Shorts weather \o/
Darn Vikings… 😛
Bitch you’re just jealous of my super-viking swagger!
Jok weather! \o/
Screw that. You might as well go live in England for that sort of weather.
Winter means hoodies and jackets and beanies and covering scrawny arms with layers! 😀
Yes! I look like a normal person during winter 😀
Give me sweltering heat and beach weather. That’s my natural environment.
But… you’re so pale! 😛
Don’t you burn! 😀
I think I’ve only been to the beach about four times in my entire life. :\
I live 10 minutes away from one of the most beautiful beaches in North QLD. Still yet to step on the sand.
Which is why you’re still alive.
Oh I burn so easily but I still enjoy the beach. Good beach weather is still good even if you’re not at the beach. 😛
How terribly uncomfortable.
Madness. Comfy and warm and soft and layered. 😀
I dislike long sleeves of any kind – fitted ones feel too restrictive, and loose ones just get in the way of everything, knocking things over and catching on stuff etc.
You know what’s nice and warm though?
Summer 😛
I don’t mind formal or business shirts with long sleeves but I abhor what are basically T-shirts with long sleeves. They don’t look good on me and I feel they are just lame.
Yeah, button-up shirts are ok…. but 90% of the time, I wear them with the sleeves rolled up. They only stay down for formal occasions.
It’s pretty bloody cold here in Adelaide, but I did brave the storm here last night.
Why? Because reasons
Was that a pie floater?
ayup!
I’m so jelly. Now I want one. 😀
Get thee to a Cafe de Vilis (or the 24hour bakery on O’connell). Dunno where up your way would do it?
Ugh. Cold weather where you are? I’ll trade you. Brisbane’s been unseasonable mild all ‘winter’. I’m really worried we aren’t even going to get a Winter this year. AGAIN.
I have yet to change into anything more covering than jeans and a collared shirt with the sleeves rolled up. 🙁 I WANT TO WEAR A COAT ALREADY. BRING ON THE COLD!
Been playing Fallout: New Vegas all morning. Just exploring, and running away from Giant Radscorpions because they scare the bejesus out of me.
The start of Dominion,which I watched last night looked so much like this game, it was uncanny.
I have it downloaded and modded up, but yet to launch it… it’s another of those games that i know that i won’t be able to stop playing once i start so i’m putting it off for as long as i can 😛
That’s what I love about the TES and Fallout games, Bethesda give you enough freedom to just wander the map and never get bored. I still remember the kill rat quests in Morrowind for the Warrior’s Guild or Fighting Guild or some manly named guild and I basically ditched my main quest to go and have these side adventures instead =P To date I’ve never completed the main storyline for any of the Fallout or TES games but spent hundreds on hours on them!
I’ve played Morrowind, Oblivion, Skyrim and Fallout 3. The only ones I’ve completed are F3 and Oblivion. And to be honest, I wish I’d never done the main story in F3, the story of my journey was epic, and that official “story” just got in the way. 😛
Shoot em in the stinger, a god critical hit there goes a hell of a lot of damage.
If all else fails go for the eyes boo, go for the eyes!
I’m only level 4 and don’t do the greatest deal of damage yet, and there’s never just one, it’s always a whole bunch of them so I just give all radscorpions a wide berth at the moment.
Oi what the hell steam?! I voted for the strider community choice selection and Strider isn’t on the sale list =@ You swindled me =@
Edit: In other news I crafted all my incomplete badges yesterday and realized I’d spent half an hour wasting my free time +_+
do you have a PS4? I hear that’s one of our PS+ games next month.
Dammit my sub expired in June and haven’t bothered renewing until Destiny comes out =P
hmm, maybe keep an eye out for any mid year deals, I think I got my annual sub for about $55 around June last year.
Okay so i guess i may as well create a new post to attract attention:
To all melbourne Taybies @beavwa @budgieishere @chuloopa @coldcamv @crazyguy1990 @f4ction @greenius @jordi @negativezero @scree @smurfydog @tech_knight @tigerion @tofu @zetrox2k:
I am thinking about going up to the Canberra shenanigans happening in august (proposed is the weekend of the 30th of august) and currently seeing if anyone wants to jump in the car with me.
I can fit about 4 people (5 if we squeeze in) with luggage and i’ve estimated if we get 4 people it’ll cost about $40 for everyone in petrol…
The other alternative is that i fly up for $120, which is not too bad, but i’m trying to do this as cheaply as possible XD…
Let me know if you’re interested, it could be a fun experience doing a TAYbie roadtrip!
Try @beavwa @budgieishere @chuloopa @coldcamv @crazyguy1990 @f4ction @greenius @jordi @negativezero @pixel_the_ferret_viking @scree @smurfydog @tech_knight @tigerion @tofu @zetrox2k
Edit: Roadtrip to Sydney instead!! We’re way more exciting than Canberra =p
Yeah but but Can’d Meat with @blaghman!
and thanks man 😀
I am keen. Also I’ve done the drive many times (my dad lives in Canberra). Load up a good playlist, we will get bored out of our minds.
Yaaay \o/
I’ll finalise details closer to the date, but i would expect it to look something like, leave friday morning from melbourne and return monday afternoon… ‘ish… 😛
EDIT – yeah i know, having done the trip a few times as well XD. My car takes USB so i was going to have everyone pitch in a playlist and i would dump them all on a flashdrive and have it on random for music pleasantness
Sounds good. Better than the bus I caught last time!
YOU ARE GOING
YAAYAYAYAY
its been too long since PAX
I would just sleep, that’s what i used to do on our trips every second year to sydney
That sounds slightly hazardous as the driver XD
Although all the “POWERNAP NOW” signs are telling me to do it
I power nap my left eye for 5 minutes then my right perfect combination to creep out other drivers and lose all depth perception \o/
Maybe!
(did you edit in your tags? Edited ones don’t give notifications so I only got it from @pupp3tmast3r)
I did for later postings because i’m lazy, i can now copy paste it without effort XD
…
Also i will add you to the definitely possibly maybe list 😀
Yes*
I’d be keen, have to double check I’m not on recall for that weekend first.
Sure, you’re added to the definitely possibly maybe list as well \o/
Trying to save up enough leave to be able to take time off in October/November for PAX, December for Christmas, March/April next year for the TAY Japan Magical Mystery Tour Extravaganza, and May/June for my Mum’s 60th, so I’m out. 🙁
lol yeah fair enough, can’t blame you… sounds like you have your hands full XD
Thanks for the lift Pixel! 😀
are… are you in Melbourne? 😛
No. That’s why I’m so thankful for the lift!
Tell you what, if you can meat us in Canberra, i can give you a lift! 😀
Novahkiin, driverborn!
#RetiredTAYmemes
FUUUUS ROH-DA-TRIP!
WHAT DO YOU MEAN RETIRED!?!?!??!!?
Finish Xenoblade N…
Ohhh 😛
Hmmmm… Interested. It’s not school holidays so timing may be difficult though.
Finally finished Watch Dogs, it was enjoyable and had a decent ending.
I only have 3 trophies to get for platinum,
Find all songs on songsneak: refuses to give me the last song :(, searched for hours
Get tailed by 5 fixers: I hate this one, no way to check, just have to hope people come and stalk me
Complete level 10 against all 3 drinking opponents: Worst damned mini game ever, unnecessarily difficult.
Also finished Pikmin 3 with all the fruit, my only complaint is it’s too short and I wanted more time with it. Wishes for Pikmin 4: no day limit (day and night cycle can stay just no “must complete by day X”) and co op campaign.
I’ve also substituted sleep for World Cup Sportsball.
How are things with y’all? Finished any good games lately?
Spending all my time on Van Helsing 2 and The Witcher 2 =D Van Helsing especially is surprisingly addictive…. More so than Torchlight 2 and D3 0,0
I’m enjoying Witcher 2, but now that I have a bit of a handle on it I’ve bumped up the difficulty in combat to Normal for a bit more a challenge (defaulted me to easy after the initial battle)
Have you finished up all your side quests? And made it up to the Kayran? Before you engage that fight make sure you get the poison antidote and get the Kayran trap! Makes the fight a lot more plausible….Oh, him, I dealt with him. Was too easy, which is why I bumped it up.
In chapter 2 atm.
Whaaaattt >.< Damn work and gym I have no time to play on weekdays =[
Interesting, I’ve never seen any Hellsing and never played any of the games, looks like the sort of thing I’d enjoy. I might have to track down the anime,
http://store.steampowered.com/app/272470/
Watch Dogs Missing Persons spoiler (if you’ve done it?):
The ending to those missions was surprisingly disappointing. A big lead up and then “oh, that guy did it, he’s a bit unstable.”Watch Dogs Missing Persons spoiler
that was the biggest dissapointment, the way they built it up I was expecting a lot, I mean he’d left a creepy trail and set up his victims in interesting ways and left messages for us to find, really underwhelming, there he is take him down, now leave him unconcious on the street ready to wake up and kick it off again. I was pretty puzzled and actually thought I did something wrong at firstYear Walk is awesome!
Short little adventure game that’s worth the cheap asking price. Please check it out!
I absolutely HATE horror stuff but pushed myself to finish it because it’s interesting. Simogo are such great developers and Device 6 on iOS is worth checking out too.
Crazy Swedish folklore!
It does look interesting, except for the whole “swedish” thing. i mean who cares about that? XD
Did you get it through Steam or IOS?
Steam!
(which you now own a copy on too 😉 )
Aw shugs man, you didn’t have to! but thank you so much!
Ooooohh just noticed that Just Cause 2 is $2.99 on Steam… this is great chance for people to pick it up purely for the exceptionally entertaining free Multiplayer Mod…
I highly recommend it so we can get more people in it again!
Drunken JC2 Multiplayer is the bestest!
SUDDENLY BERINGS ERRYWHERE
Is there anyone that doesn’t have that game at this point?
I guess so… otherwise why hasn’t a 20+ people JC2 Bering tied together shenanigans been a thing yet? 😛
@popdart
Warning! RPG talk!
I’ve almost filled out the character sheet you sent through, I’m just not sure how equipment works, can we choose whatever we want from the spreadsheet you sent through? (sorry about all the questions BTW =P)dammit, I always forget the 5 in @popdart5
What happened to Popdart 1-4? *suspicious look*
I eated them. 😀
I’ll be honest, as someone still trying to come to grips with exactly how D&D works Rouge Trader looks super intimidating.
D&D isn’t actually that hard. You’ve basically learned most of what you need to know about playing it in the Pathfinder sessions we’ve had already, and you made a good selection of character class for learning as well, compared to say a Rogue where you really need to work the mechanics nearly to exploitation to be the most effective, or a caster where you have to keep in mind a bunch of extra tactical considerations. You just need to roll up to things and knock their heads off.
As someone who is comfortable with Pathfinder/D&D 3.5 and D&D 4, Rogue Trader looks super intimidating.
If you stick it out you’ll inevitably get sudden clarity on everything, followed by an “Ooooooohhh…right!”. That’s the usual case for me each time I learn a new ruleset.
A lot of the 40K RPG mechanics are a bit of a twist on the standard D&D stuff in that rolling lower on the dice is better and everything bar a few exceptional rolls are a d100 roll. There is greater reliance on your inherent characteristic score on stuff as that is the target number that you commonly need to try and beat.
I’ll just need to remember to keep you guys red. 😛 (Bad pun is bad, I’m sorry).
The 40K stuff is a bit complex so that’s why I want to run everyone through the basic rules before we start playing properly. That way some of the immediate difficulty and misunderstandings can be avoided and overcome.
From what I’ve read of Rogue Trader so far (half the booklet) it seems to fit pretty well into the Warhammer 40k Universe with perks, skills and character classes (i.e. makes sense if you follow the universe), I’d imagine if you were feeling a little intimidated reading up on your race could shed more light on some of the mechanics pop’s going to run us through =]
I’m pretty familiar with the lore. At least up until Tau were introduced. I stopped playing about 15 years ago and even the base game rules have changed pretty dramatically since then.
There’s been something like three or four codices in the past fifteen years so there will be a chunk of lore that you’re unfamiliar with. Question for Freeze and other Eldar players:
Are you familiar with what happened with Craftworld Iyanden and the Tyranids?Uh, that’s like their whole deal. Always has been.
Cool. Just double-checking as I wasn’t sure when that was introduced into the lore. That will be pertinent for the story just FYI.
Ah, just wait until we show you the HERO system
How’s your Algebra? Know your logarithms?
I’ve never played with the HERO system. Took one look at a .pdf and went DEARGODNOThat and the GURPS system. I can’t wrap my head around either system.
It was like Seriously, WTF, I have to do fractional multiplication to chargen? Standard Array 4 lyf.
Equipment is determined by your career path so you get the equipment that it says there. I will also be going through an Acquisition test with you guys in the character creation session that tells you exactly what else you can select. Generally you won’t get much aside from your career path starting gear.I’m guessing as a Tau Fire Warrior I just get their basic starting kit as per the guide? Also quick question, since tech is the only human in the group will we have to enforce the whole “speak not unto the alien” perk? Where we have to do the -20 penalty on fellowship tests?!Make it more fun: he gets the penalty cause he’s the minority 😀
Considering where you guys are going to be you won’t really have to worry about that. The Eldar will though as they are going to be a bit fish out of water on the first planet at least.Oh great, we are going be on a planet full of those … mammals aren’t weWell if that’s the case I can’t get along with them either! Tech you’re going to have to be the middle man so to speak =pDoubtful that I’d volunteer if you knew about my character 😛….. I say we chop Tech up and use him for spare parts -_-
Okay, I’ve figured out the weapons but I don’t know how armours work. Can’t seem to put the AP anywhere.Should be on the second page with the picture of the guy towards the bottom. At least I think that’s where it was.If the armour we have is classified as “all” does that mean each piece of armour gets the specified AP?EDIT Also …
What “classification” is our armour? Mesh?If it says Armour: All then you get that many armour points on each part of your character (head, arms, body, and legs).Your armour classification will be wraithbone armour. It is both lightweight and tough at the same time so it can largely be compared to carapace armour.
I’ve been looking into the possibility of running a Star Wars RPG session recently, but I’m not sure if anyone here would be interested (especially when we currently have two and gearing up for a third ongoing campaign) and I’m also not sure how well the dice system FFG built into the Edge of the Empire stuff would transfer to a digital environment, especially since they seem to have made it to streamline the game such that the GM isn’t as involved. Does anyone here have any experience playing it in meatspace?
Colour me interested, though if you’re worried about the ongoing aspect maybe do a series of one-shots? Haven’t played in meatspace.
It does worry me a little, so maybe that would work, especially given that I’m not sure if it’ll transfer well to a less intimate digital setting (and it’ll need extra support stuff made as well, for the dice).
The dice system is quite interesting and I could see it being pretty amusing in a meatspace setting. Dunno if you know how it works, but basically you have a bunch of colored dice which have two different ‘resources’ so to speak that counter each other out – Successes and Failures, Advantages and Threats. There’s also Triumphs and Despairs, which count as Successes or Failures and cancel each other out, but also add to a pool that is available for spending to trigger positive or negative effects later on.
For any skill roll you build a dice pool. So for example if you’re making an Astrogation check then you would start by checking which ability it is (int) and taking your int stat’s worth of green dice, so if you had 4 int you’d take 4 green dies. Then you look at your proficiency in the skill, and for each point of proficiency you ‘upgrade’ a green die to a yellow proficiency die. So if I had 1 rank in Astrogation, I’m rolling 3 green and 1 yellow. The GM then decides how difficult the check is, and adds purple difficulty dice (2 for an average difficulty check) and then decides if there’s extra circumstances that might affect the challenge, for example you’re making the check while in combat, and the ship is damaged, so those might add two extra Challenge die. The GM can also add Boost dies if there are advantageous circumstances as well, for example you’ve got the assistance of a droid to check your numbers.
The check succeeds if the successes outnumber the failures. The GM uses the number of advantages or threats to add extra flavour as well, so for example if your roll ended up with 1 extra advantage, maybe the route you plot is faster than normal (maybe you do the Kessel Run in less than 12 parsecs? :P) but if you have a bunch of threats, perhaps a homing beacon is attached to your ship, or your hyperdrive explodes after you make the jump.
If there’s enough interest I could try running a one-shot, as long as people realize I’m a complete noob GM and also that it’s a new system to me as well. I’d go grab the sourcebooks and everything beforehand, obviously. Add it to the stack of Pathfinder stuff I have now.
EDIT: If anything the big issue I can see with the game is that the dice system might reduce the feeling of actual character progression. Are you getting better or not? Given that everything is randomized with dice it’ll become harder to tell if your leveling up had a tangible effect.
Having only briefly encountered that dice pool mechanic before, that does seem to be a very hands-off and uncontrolled approach. I would say it’s also more random than simply rolling one dice and applying a modifer to that. That’s one of the main reasons that I’m hesistant to try out the new versions of Star Wars RPG and the new edition of Warhammer Fantasy RPG which has a similar dice pool mechanic.
*Way* more random. Also you can never have situations where you can skill up to the point that basic challenges are trivialized. In 3E/Pathfinder for example you could bring your bluff skill up so high that you could tell outrageous lies (“The prisoners aren’t really escaping, it’s just a highly realistic drill”) and get away with it because you’ve got something like 30 ranks in it. There’s always a much higher chance of failing spectacularly.
The pool mechanic also encourages team play a bit more, because you can add extra bonus dice to the pool if someone helps you with a challenge, plus they have the ability to basically ‘bank’ bonus dies for the team.
Also while poking around I realized that the interpretation of the dice is meant to be a bit more complicated than just success vs failure, and the color of the dice that certain things appear on actually can act as an aid for coming up with a description for the event. For example if you roll all your successes on yellow (skill) die then it means that the character succeeded at the task because of their actual training, where if the successes all came from the bonus die, then their training or pure ability didn’t make a difference, instead it was the circumstances that helped. Likewise if they fail and get a ton of threat coming from the setback dice, then that suggests that the environment they were in was what did them in, not their ability, so perhaps in the astrogation example I had above, the fact they were doing it in combat meant that their lightspeed jump failed due to damage to the hyperdrive caused by a lucky shot from an enemy ship. So I don’t know that it would be that limiting to a GM, just got to be flexible and not have a hugely fixed story in mind I think.
Overall the game appears to be much more narrative-focused and abstract than your dungeon crawler systems like D&D. More toward the GURPS side. So that element of it would probably transfer fairly well to an online setting.
Another thing I like is that there’s extra stuff that goes into character builds – you have to select an Obligation, which is something the character has to deal with (like a debt, or a betrayal in the past, or a drug addiction) and a motivation to explain what makes that character tick. I think it’s nice to require those sorts of things be spelled out.
It’s apparently pretty good at getting the cinematic feel of the setting across.
I’ve been looking at the Firefly RPG, which has an opposed pool mechanic- basically you can assemble from your character’s strengths and assets, then roll it to beat a GM’s number from a pool he assmebled. I think it’s pretty neat and quite narrativist.
For example, say you’re playing as Jayne, and you’re fighting three thugs. As GM, I might say they’re not so tough (d6) but there’s 3 of them (2 more d6 into my pool) plus they’ve got an asset, a Giant Gun (d8). As GM I’d roll those dice and add together the top 2 to give you a target to hit (say, 13).
As Jayne, you’d say I’m using my physical skill (d10), plus I’m an excellent shot (Shoot, d12) and I use Vera (a signature asset, d8) and roll all three. If you beat 13 with your top two dice, success!
If you flub a roll and get a one, even if your total beats mine as GM I can introduce a complication (for example, Bullet Wound d6 ) that I can then add as assets to future pools. I also would give you a “plot point” that you can cash to arse-pull an asset or step down a complication later on.
That sounds like basically the exact same thing, except with normal people dice instead of these weird thematic things that FFG probably expect to make a killing by selling.
Well, suits me, as I realised the other day I’ve probably got around 150 usable gaming dice sitting in my jar o dice.
Which is, of course, not enough and I need more.
Yeah except these dice have funny symbols and you can’t use them for anything else.
Theoretically I guess you could take appropriately colored ‘normal’ dice (blue and black d6s, green and purple d8s, yellow and red d12s, white d10s I think) and stick symbols on yourself.
or just use a table.
From memory, they’re not exorbitant, and if I thought there was potential for me to play it more than once in meatspace I’d grab a set, because funky dice.
I’d be interested in giving it a crack
Is that the one where you roll multiple different coloured dices, with different weighting and stuff to work out if something’s successful or not?
Had a chat with a girl who played that last Christmas, and it seemed pretty cool (Their pilot failed every warp jump thingy he’d attempted despite being quite well trained in it). I haven’t played it though.
If you do decide to go ahead, I’d love a headsup since I’m interested in playing it, although I know absolutely nothing about Star Wars aside from watching all the movies, and playing a few games.
That is indeed the one.
Since Lucasfilm have thrown away the expanded universe, only the movies + clone wars + Rebels when it starts is canon now anyway so not knowing Star Wars outside the movies won’t be too much of a burden (though if I was running something I’d probably pull in a bit of expanded universe because a lot of the setting stuff is perfectly fine).
Let me know if you need more players. I’d be keen.
@rocketman – Do you still need a place to crash this weekend after River Sessions?
I do not thanks budy, i was hoping we could catch up but im going to Yungalla on Friday . I dont think ill have a chance. 🙁
Yungalla? Do you mean Eungella (the national park near Mackay)?
yes i do, i just dont know how to spell it
Lol. Make sure you stop in at the Chalet for a beer – it’s got a top view (and is where I proposed to my missus). Also Finch Hatton Gorge is awesome – beautiful crystal clear water, but would be ice-cold at the moment, so watch for shrinkage.
Where are you staying? If you’re staying in town we might be able to catch up at a pub for dinner Friday night?
The Oatmeal has one of the most accurate Which Game of Thrones Character quizzes I’ve seen yet.
theoatmeal.com/quiz/got_character
Reminds me of this quiz
I just want to sleep.
This does not bode well.
What does a clock do when it’s hungry?
It goes back four seconds #dadjokepagesix #addedmysteryofthespoilertag #BOO #hi@strangeI dedicate this dad joke in honour of recently renewed dad @shane.
Thanks, my friend.
Three men are on a boat, they have 4 cigarettes but no matches or any other way to light them, what do they do?
throw one overboard and the boat becomes a cigarette lighter*hangs head in shame*
*wipes tear*
I had to Google that to understand it :3
not sure what’s funnier, that you had to or that google could answer you.
One of my favourite riddles/jokes.
A joke so old they even did it on Batman…
AMAZING.
@pixel_the_ferret_viking @doc_what
This was the video I was talking about!
Hax
Japanese Cheatalen
Minecraft Peeps
Added every Minecraft username from Tay Names to Whitelist.
AU Server, Hosted by Stipe Servers, Server based in Sydney
IP: 119.252.191.106:26516
DDOS Protection
Hourly Backups
To answer some common questions i may get:
1. Why are there no OPS?
There will be no ops on this server. Not even myself. Having OP access completely ruins the fun of MC through temptation.
2. Can i be placed in Creative mode?
No, Strictly SURVIVAL MODE ONLY.
3. How will griefers be handled with no ops?
They will be handled directly through the Server console.
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There are about 4 or 5 of us active on it at the moment… Its a new seed, spawn point is on the borderline of a desert biome and a jungle biome
the arrow on the floor at spawn points to North (for the uninitiated). we’ve headed a short distance north east and made a hole in the side of a mountain to do some digging. today will probably head on east to find an area to start building a house.
@beavwa – you are goot to go!
Wooooooo! Goot!
Gonna dig a hole.
But you need to carve up monsters for shiny armour and weapons!
Still doing that on the train. Probably up to about 90% of the high rank sets.
No, no, no! You will not drag me back into a Minecraft addiction! No!
IMA BUILD ME A SPONGEBOB WITH A PENIS!!!!! \o/
and i will pull a switch and it will pee!
also youve been whitelisted too 🙂
Don’t tell me that!
True story, we’re not allowed to call them whitelists and blacklists here any more. It’s racist, apparently. They are allow-lists and block-lists.
ba ba rainbow sheep have you any wool?
Rainbow sheep? Are you trying to push some kind of drugs on our impressionable youth? You monster.
its a thing now!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baa,_Baa,_Black_Sheep#Modern_controversies
uurgh.
DAMMIT ZETROX! I’VE ACTUALLY BEEN DOING WORK AT WORK LATELY!
same here, its been scary… figured that needed to change \o/
also i dont know if ive whitelisted u… if ur MC username is on taynames, i have otherwise just tag me and ill add you.
@zetrox2k SteveoTheDeveo
Done!
Thanks man! I logged on for a bit and found a temple. Apparently it was booby-trapped. Went back to find my stuff and am now stuck down the well.
What’s the command to send Lassie for help?
Well if you and I play on the same server again, i am NOT building a viking ship out of wood again!
The server was being destroyed and I wanted to give it a proper burial 😛
@zetrox2k how can I join your server?
hey Zapz, just give me your minecraft username so i can add you to the whitelist, then just join using the server details above
Z_a_p_z
How much is minecraft nowadays it sounds fun
$27 USD at the moment. It used to be like $10 when it was in alpha and $15 in beta. I guess now that it’s “finished” (though it still has some bugs and is being continuously updated) you’re paying full price.
Worth it though.
Does it ever go on sale or anything?
Not that I’ve ever noticed, but I bought it back when it was $15 and I think my wife bought her own account like two years later when it was $25 or so so I don’t regularly check the prices.
I’ll wait till pay day then and consider picking it up
do it man…. it is TOTALLY worth it…. so much fun… just watch a couple of beginners videos to get you started on basic crafting, then join up with a couple of people and start mining the rarer metals/jewels…
They put a big sign up near my place screaming “Stop the Muslim Mosque!” and someone has painted under it “Stop being racist”.
It’s nice to see some people aren’t completely retarded. I’m still struggling to see the problem with it being situated in the back of an industrial estate wedged between the M1 and a quarry.
Back home people protested the building of a temple out in the middle of plains/farmland that could only be seen if you were on the train and happened to be looking for it in the distance.
EDITED… MIGHT BE DEEMED INSENSITIVE…
something something about me being able to respect other peoples choices and beliefs, but you cant expect everyone else to change just for you.
People don’t build mosques in areas where there aren’t muslims who want a mosque.
not reffering to mosques… i can also respect people need a place to pray. Its moreso expecting all stores and restaurants to not sell certain meat products, including large chains like kfc, etc… selling and using halal meat makes no difference to us, its fine, but if i want to have bacon in my bbq bacon roller, i should be able to.
KFCs that don’t stock bacon have probably made the calculation (Size of Muslim market in this area)/(Size of people who won’t buy our product if it’s bacon-free in this area) and gone from there
I haven’t come across too many fast food outlets that serve halal meat and as far as my experience goes even those ones serve bacon. As a part of a franchise you have to stick to the overall menu from the head franchise (part of a legally binding franchise agreement; trust me I’ve seen plenty of them!). If you’re referring to restaurants in general outside a franchise once again I’ve not come across any restaurants where muslims have impacted enough for them to change their menu? Halal restaurants are usually run by muslims with muslims in mind, non-halal rarely change just to fit that since it would risk alienating existing clients unless they were in pre-dominantly muslim neighborhood.
Have there been instances in your area where muslims have protested to have the menus in KFC changed or other restaurants?
Edit: Look the way I see it everyone has the right to their beliefs and their practices as long as it doesn’t cause harm to others in society. If a pre-dominantly muslim neighborhood doesn’t want pork served in their restaurants they can ask for or protest it, after that it comes down to the restaurant owner. Sadly if you own your own business for some reason the government believed you should have the right to run it how you wish. Crazy right?
Lots of Pizza places in Adelaide are halal, run by Lebanese families.
Used to live across the road from one, nice guys. Always running something new- never went, but they used to screen UFC matches in the restaurant
There was an altercation in a Bankstown McDonalds, a few years ago, when a customer requested bacon on their burger from the muslim staff member.
Can’t recall the details.
(EDIT: Not expressing an opinion, just pointing out an instance where this topic has caused a fuss.
The Book of Flu decrees “thou shalt not eat eggplant, ’cause it’s like boogers but gross” but if you want to eat eggplant, you go right ahead. Don’t want to sell me bacon? I’m down with that.)
http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/national/halal-food-dishing-out-change-in-our-fast-food-society/story-fnii5s40-1226647942182
It’s not like it’s being proscribed, it’s a commercial choice.
Frankly, if I worked out that most of my potential customers had a dietary need, esp if all you need is to change suppliers and cut bacon off the menu, I’d do it. And I’m explicitly not a muslim (or jewish, or hindu, or hare krishna).
Exactly, I doubt this would be commercially viable in a suburb or town where the majority customers would like bacon! Look don’t get me wrong I personally love bacon, but if restaurants are making a decision to take it off the menu it would need to be a commercially viable choice. For example Bankstown is a pre-dominantly muslim suburb, I’d imagine if half the customers going there wanted bacon they would have to make the change accordingly.
The point where I would take offense is when a fast food chain chooses to take bacon off the menu for a minority population within a community, but once again that choice belongs to the owner of the restaurant. If the community takes issue with it, they can voice their thoughts and hope for change.
Dammit now I want bacon eggs and sauteed mushrooms… and some hash browns =@ GAH!
Edit: Found it! http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/nsw/court-hears-how-bacon-led-to-big-mac-attack/story-e6freuzi-1226147303697
In that scenario the offending party clearly crossed a line, I’m not going to say that there aren’t fanatical muslims out there but just like that there are also fanatical christians and hindus too.
Meh. They’re as free to take bacon off the menu as I am to not eat there any more. If they remain open and in business then great, it’s not for me any more but obviously for plenty of others. If they don’t then it was a poor decision on their behalf.
People keep forgetting it’s the consumers that drive the market not the vendors.
While in a free market society consumers would drive the market but we have to account for personal biases, in this case if the owner was muslim he could make a commercially detrimental choice not to serve bacon but from his point of view an ethically important one. He could be sacrificing a portion of his profits so that he can sleep well at night, it doesn’t necessarily need to be an open and shut case as either the business thrives or fails.
However I get the point you’re making and I agree with it, money talks. If a restaurant owner chooses his personal beliefs over his business then his business could suffer depending on the market he’s in. What I don’t agree with and the point I was trying to make is that it comes down to a person’s individual choice on how they want to run their restaurant, and if you really want to have bacon in your bbq bacon roller you’ll have to find a restaurant owned by someone who’s willing to cater for it!
Oh everyone is absolutely free to make their choices based on personal belief and that’s their right. But if you aren’t providing a service or goods that people want or need you won’t have to worry about business decisions for much longer.
In my case I hate selling surf keys to people. They are a ridiculous idea that completely opens up your car to theft and voids your insurance. I do my best to talk people out of it but I’m not going to refuse a sale for it.
What’s a surf key? I’m guessing it’s some sort of solution to the “what do I do with my key while I am in the water?” problem.
@cookingmama
A key that opens the door only while they keep the actual key in the car. Car doors are amazingly unsecure and as car thieves can’t start the car easily without the transponder key they just head down to the beach and watch for people locking their car doors manually.
I dunno nuffin’ from local business, but the Muslim parts of Asia are a devil of a place to try and find bacon. It’s like they don’t sell it anywhere. Or even beef, most places. There’s something really disheartening about going to burger places and other eateries and the only meat on the menu is chicken.
Don’t most of them have lamb as well? Lamb burgers can be pretty good. Fatty though.
God, I wish. Maybe in some restaurants, but most fast food places? Fuggedaboudit.
Let’s not forget that it’s not just Muslims that don’t eat pig, it’s Jews too. My point being, don’t single out one group of people when there are other groups that have the same beliefs.
People honestly have more outrage about mosques than they do about prisons being built in their area. “Oh no, people might want to worship here! HEAVEN FORBID!”
Their main argument is, no joke, there’s a school nearby and won’t somebody think of the children.
I really really wish that was hyperbole.
That’s daft.
Because ALL Muslims are terrorists dontcha know.
#sarcasm
That’s ridiculous. They should knock down their church if it’s near the school too, so they’re not hypocrites.
A friend of my next door neighbour came round not long after I’d moved in here, and asked if I would sign a petition to stop a new mosque being built across the road from one that’s just down the road from me. I politely declined. If they want a place to worship, then by all means, let em have it. So long as they aren’t preaching nasty hateful things there, they have as much right to have a place to worship as any other religion. Providing they don’t come knocking on my door trying to convert me, I see no reason for them not to be granted permission to build a new mosque. (Now that the mosque is actually completed construction wise, I’m actually pleased with the results. The old one didn’t really look that nice, where as the new one has nice fancy architecture, which makes driving past more interesting!)
If you’re still in the Sunnybank/Runcorn area, I had friends in high school that went to that old mosque. Totally rad dudes, although one of them is a little preachy.
I’m in Underwood now. The mosque’s I’m referring to are on Logan Rd, just down from the RACQ headquarters.
Different one then.
Stick ordered. Should be ready to pick up tomorrow, ie on the way home from work.
Rewarding myself, or something 😛
Metaphor, euphemism, or a literal stick?
Yes!
A replacement for the broken joystick I returned to JB yesterday.lol I was gonna say stick of weed, but then I caved and read the spoiler. I am disappoint!
Oh gods.
I’m in heaven
Askreddit: Can we have a dad-joke off?
I NEEDED THIS AND WAS LOOKING FOR IT AND NOW I HAVE IT AND NOW I AM WORRIED ABOUT WHAT KARMA WILL DO TO ME IN EXCHANGE.
…ALL CAPS IS PROBABLY NOT HELPING.
You fool! You could’ve just kept it for yourself, posted them on TAY and become a hero.
You think I would sole-source dad jokes?
Silly Pow.
Confession time! so I’ve stalking TAY for a while now and can only say one thing: you guys are awesome!
I’m a real stalkerEdit: well, about me …. other than what’s in the spoiler tag there is not much to say >:) Just your average 21 yo full time student+full time office worker who wants a time machine just to catch up on games 😛 and I live in Sydney \o/
@greenius never got around to play Xenoblade but will play it one day… maybe
Hi Za… oh it’s a different Zap 😀
Xenoblade?!
Hi Zapz
Since you probably know lots about us (including some stuff you probably didn’t want to know) tell us about yourself
So, which one of us do you have a crush on?
Trick question! If you have any taste, you’ll have a crush on all of us.can’t say it out loud (can’t stalk them if they know) 😛
Alright, who’s dusting off the Oar of Thorns?
Some say The Oar of Thorns was swapped with The Oar of Spikes, some time during the early 19th century.
It was switched back shortly after and the prankster responsible had a good chuckle.
Fun fact the Oar of Spikes is now the Paddle Of Spikes used when someone goes too far upstream and needs a paddle
Oh, you better believe that’s a paddlin’
Hullo!
Hullo! o/
…
WANT SOME RYE? COURSE YA DO!
HELL YEAH!
I call shenanigans! With all that no free time you’ve got there you can’t be a real stalker! 😛
but…but… I can still be a PART TIME stalker!
…so uh, how long have you been there?
7 years now, but if you ask me for directions I would probably be less helpful than a tourist 😀
Yes, how long exactly have you been lurking in the shadows, peeping through our window, Obviously you like what you saw :p
Welcome to TAY zapz
Welcome to TAY mang, hope you enjoy your time here.
Greetings!
@freezespreston @rize @tech_knight @pupp3tmast3r @sernobulus
How does 8pm AEST Thursday night sound for you gentlemen?
I think Thursday I’ve got Torchlight 2 planned with Jo and the TAYbies that night, can it be shifted to Friday? @jocon were you planning on shifting the Torchlight 2 day to fit in Steve-o’s schedule?
I can work with whatever. Just throwing a date and a time out to see if it sticks. Let me know what nights suit you better. I’m not going to try and run this on a weekend because that’s just not cricket.
Yeah I’m not going for weekends either, or cricket. 🙂
I can’t do Friday evening or Saturday evening =\ Maybe Sunday? I’ve got the whole day free pretty much!
I’m going to keep this to weeknights as weekends are for family-time, relaxation, or just general other stuff. My weekends are usually pretty busy anyway as that’s when I tend to play offline tabletop RPGs.
Let me know then! I just made plans for this weekend today so locked out there! Monday or Tuesday evening? I could also try for tomorrow?
Tuesday night next week is looking likely at this stage as every other night until then bar Thursday this week will be impossible for me.
@popdart5 next Tuesday works for me
I shall keep Tuesday night free!
Your face isn’t cricket!Any time should be fine with a bit of notice.
Eh, if he does not reply he does not get a say.
Keep it Thursday, if I can get online I will.
Cool.
Just added my details on TAY names. Feel free to add me. Am usually on PS4 or 360 🙂
^ Who’s this guy?
No, really. Who is this person?clearly a lurker who can no longer resist the greatness that comes from being a TAYbie!
That’s the one^
Groovy.
2 lurkers in one day, that just will not do, all you lurkers out there should come out of the shadows and say hi, we don’t bite…… hard.
Seiously though, welcome to TAY @garnet23, hope you enjoy your time here mang.
He’s Garnet, 23rd in the line of.
Obviously.
I initially thought you might be right and that it was a FF IX reference but the Garnet there was the 17th in line, not the 23rd. 😛
Garnet, 23rd in line for the throne of Alexandria
Hi! Welcome to TAY.
What’s your poison, game wise?
Anything and everything seems to be the easiest way to go. Am mainly a slave to NBA2K14 but play RPGs, shooters, indies…pretty much whatever is good.
Welcome to the neighbourhood.
Hope you possess a resilient buttocks.
Thanks, have had no problems so far so..*fingers crossed
Xenoblade?
I know it’s wrong but I have a brief giggle every time I hear ISIS mentioned in the news.
One could say Iraq is now a Danger. ZONE!
You want insurgents? Cause that’s how you get insurgents!
“Oh, for heavens sake, Sterling! I said pull ISIS out of Iraq, not lead a damn invasion!”
Think I need to buy an Archer ISIS shirt in light of recent events..
King of Fighters XIII doesn’t seem to be working right now. When I play it, a message in the game pops up telling me that my save data is corrupted, and that it has to make new save data. Except I haven’t created any save data yet. Then I get a loading screen that doesn’t go away. I think 3 minutes of load screen is enough to determine something went wrong, so I use task manager to close the game and start it up again. Same message, same load screen. I waited longer, but with no result.
Any suggestions, TAY?
Try Street Fighter =]
Or Tekken @phlanispo
Tekken is good. Not on PC though.
Wow, there you go.
Where’s it installed? Sounds like the kind of behaviour I’d expect from windows aggressively protecting the program files folder
Tried to load it again, this time giving it 7 minutes to load. Probably going to have to uninstall and reinstall.
If all else fails, try running it in compatibility mode. No idea if it’ll work, but worth a shot!
Yeah… I don’t know how to do that. Computer student, everybody!
Right click the exe file, and select properties. Then go to the Compatibility tab. You can then change it to run in compatibility for older OS’s.
Interesting, it looks like Xbox One is going to be launching in China before the PS4. September release, alongside Japan. Potentially huge relatively untapped market there.
Untapped because they kept a pretty tight lid on “game consoles” coming out there, they must have loosened the restriction
Yeah, China relaxed restrictions on game consoles late last year. There’s still some restrictions on content, I think they require that games not be critical of China or communism, not mention Taiwan, probably have to refer to those bloody islands as Diaoyu rather than Senkaku and so on.
And no dairy.
Also, no games that have Mondays in them.
Good luck outselling the booming pirate market
Certainly tough competition amongst the have-nots, but it sounds like there’s also plenty of ‘haves’ who quite possibly crave legitimacy. Definitely be interesting to watch.
I’d like to see how many follow through on that claim.
Ended up going home sick from work :\
I blame Mrs Pixel for having a cold, and passing it on to me…
and @scree
*shakes fist*
it’s okay I forgive you… Gives me a chance to stay at home \o/Maybe you’ve come down with a disease..a disease causing a state of decay
Haaaah i get it! also is it sad when i started coughing that that’s exactly the scenario i thought about? XD
Turns out my Mum has it and so does my brother, so it’s certainly going around
You didn’t say sorry \o/
@beardymcmuttonchops @beeawwb @cufcfan616 @dc @dkzeitgeist @freezespreston @gutsoup @jimu @lambomann007 @popdart5 @sernobulus @strange @sughly @transientmind @welbot @weresmurf @virus__
Just seein who would be interested in birthday drinks at mine on July 19th a Saturday.
Thinking a day BBQ at my house followed by drinks outside where I can be irresponsible.
Yes or nos or maybes or I dont want to travel to Brisbane’s North please make it more Central are very welcome and helpful.
VIP invites to @ash @doc_what @jamesmacusedmyhandle ( @neinhandle ?) & @greenius
Why aren’t I a VIP? I see how it is…
Fine. I’ll come. But I’ll be surly about it for an hour minimum.
It’s a copout, only those who wont actually come get one shhhhhhhhhhh dont tell no one 😉
I’m going to come now, sucked in!
Dammit! 😛
Rise v Chie battle ’14
IT’S ON LIKE SUN WUKONG!
See yous guys there!
How’ve you been?
Busy, but who isn’t eh?
Me!
Busy with all your newly acquired Steam games 😀
And my new found love of break dancing!
*dances, breaks something*
Yeah, where’s all my new steam games? @greenius
What do you mean I still haven’t finished Dust?
Breakdancing made me laugh more than was probably appropriate. There was an actual physical chuckle.
Only 1 day and 6 hours till Valiant Hearts unlocks \o/
Hey, I @ed meself just like you! 😀
oops, sorry @ed
see how I made Central with a capital. Huh.
Sounds good, Jimu!
Also, obviously one suburb north is pretty great for me but am happy to train into city too. (And then triumphantly train home with Jimu and Gutsoup! :D)
VIP :’)
Still early on in my working life so it’s unlikely but now that I’ll be earning $ maybe I can start flying around this big ass country of ours to see some other people.
I want to say sure count me in, but i’m not sure what my work will be in a month time, if i’m back at the bottle-o I may have to sit it out 🙁
No worries, thanks for the timely answer
Welcome. Since it’s a casual position I re-applied for all should be good if I get it, i’ll just let them know not i’m not available that day lol.
Day BBQ sounds great to me!
whereabouts Brisbane North is Brisbane North? It’s always good to be supplied with questionable meats though XD
Bald Hills
Lol.
Eh?
I lol when I hear it too.. right before I cry when I remember how far away it is! 😉
Us North Side folks make this trip every meat! 😀 GUTSOUP LIVES EVEN FURTHER! D:
You gotta add the same trip in the opposite direction for Welbo
D:
What about people like me who make the effort and come from another state?! Yeah!
hahah what a nutter!
If someone can help me get home I may be able to make it. With Freeze’s the week before my birthday, and yours the week after I can just crash someone else’s Meat instead of having my own. \o/
That’s good thinking 😛
I can likely give you a lift home! will come back via the gateway, so not far out of the way really
Not gonna be back in the country by that date. Hope you have a great night Jimu!
I already said yes GEESUS
Same.
SAME!
HOW DARE YOU!
irresposible drinking? Count me in, I’m good at that.
YISSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
What the fuck.. Some people in my town went around last night and flogged a bunch of water meters from the local TAFE and a few other businesses. Who the hell steam water meters o.O
Gotta steal something.
http://images.wikia.com/simpsons/images/e/e0/Nelson_Muntz-795440.png
Huh. So it looks like there’s a group working on a fan translation for Nayuta no Kiseki / Trails of Nayuta, which was a PSP spinoff of the Trails / Legend of Heroes franchise that is basically an action RPG built on the Ys Seven engine. I always thought it looked rad and was bummed that it never got a translation, especially when it’s apparently roughly as text-heavy as a Ys game and not a whopping monster to work on like Trails in the Sky. Always seemed like something XSeed would end up releasing, but I guess fans of Trails would be up in arms over it if they did it instead of the mainline games despite each game having astounding amount of text. As it is there were people having a sook about the fact they announced a localization of Brandish, despite that game having so little text that one of their guys translated it in their spare time.
So that’ll be cool if it gets done.
Re-watching all of Red vs Blue for the fourth time seems like a good idea.
I really really really liked the first 100 episodes the first time.
Tried for a second, not so much 🙁
I keep waiting for me to get tired of RvB and it never happens.
I have grown to like the later seasons with a more complex story more than the earlier joke-oriented episodes though.
I want to work on cosplays but I just feel too tired/run down/sick
It’s a cold night. I suggest bed, a hot water bottle and a hot toddy!
I would but, 6 cosplays and caring for Mum means I don’t get much rest
6 cosplays! o_O
That is amazing!! But taking a rest is still a good idea if you’re sick. You can’t look after others if you don’t look after yourself first. Hope you’re feeling better soon.
I am insane and decided I needed a challenge. However, I think it’s enough challenge for one year….
I say as I plan to make cupcakes and games and drawing and controller designs. /o\
Can’t wait to see the finished product 🙂
@shane
Is this where you started it all?
http://imgur.com/gallery/t5ldW
Ahaha, @rize tagged me for this earlier. It’s true: all my co-workers hate me! 😛
Dammit, i didn’t realise I’d been beaten to the punch. Still it’s pretty damn funny.
I do enjoy the some assembly required one. =P
Oh god saw this earlier, even if it is obviously fake it is awesome.
I dunno, we did some stupid stuff at McDonalds. If you were a good working, larking around was tolerated.
I’m not sure what manager would leave issues they obviously need to talk to the employee about on a notice board for all to see is all 😛
Hahahaha man that just made the start to my day =P
Well there goes 60 dollars on music 😀
Ordered 2 of the same Slash album… One from JB the other from overseas cause there was a Classic Rock fan pack with personalised (I think signed too) poster, with a special magazine too 😛
I’ll probably buy it from iTunes. Hoping it’s as good as Apocalyptic Love.
I have blind faith 😛
I’d do that but I am more into physical media.
I feel like it’s been shared already (Kotaku article maybe?) but I just stumbled across this video that’s both about Phil Fish and not about Phil Fish that was pretty interesting!
Also, I don’t know why but I also had the thought “I wonder if @strange finished The Last Story…?” did you? 😀
I think it was on Gizmodo, I watched it too.
I still think Phil Fish is a pretty swell guy.
>:|
*Shakes fist at Gooky*
I’m sorry I swear I don’t go to Gizmodo anywhere near as much as I used to!
Nope. I was even thinking just today when I saw The Last Story mentioned somewhere that I’ll probably never finish it. It’s been too long since I played and I was fairly close to the end so starting again isn’t really an option either. Maybe if they do a HD re-release so the fuzziness doesn’t give me headaches.
Xenoblade is cooler 😀
You’ve got more Xenobuddies too!
I really wanted to like The Last Story but the British localization annoyed the shit out of me, even more than a US dub would, and it controlled like crap and the plot wasn’t really hugely engaging. I still feel like maybe I didn’t give it a good enough shake, but I went into Xenoblade straight after and it’s a night and day difference between the two IMO.
I had such a good game of Dota earlier that I’m actually sated. I have no desire to play any more Dota tonight because it simply cannot be as good as that game.
Should go back to sleep, fired up Tomb Raider instead…
Andy from The Living End is such a cool dude, and his new project The Pants Collective is awesome. It’s great to see his involvement in running the Facebook & Instagram and gets chatting to fans. I’ve known a few musicians who do this, it really put it in perspective how much they do care for their fans.
Well, I’m off to bed…
Goodnight, TAY.
Good night crazyguy
Awake forever…FOREVER!!!
HOLY CRAP I NAILED SECTION 3 OF CHAMPION ROAD WITHOUT TAKING A HIT! Seems to only knock off maybe one or two seconds of time from taking a hit, I think I could live with that. Maybe even less if I can improve the part after the jump a little more.
Then I even managed to get all the way up the bug wall jump without taking a hit either, and I’ve ALWAYS screwed that up when doing it as Super Mario.
But then I went and screwed things up on the speedway and now it’s bedtime 🙁
Okay, now I think my browser problem isn’t the browser, I think there’s something seriously wrong with the computer, because now it not only doesn’t let me sign in to Kotaku with IE, it won’t even open Chrome at all (which I just downloaded this morning).
The way I see it my options are
a) Take it back to the store and get them to do a factory reset for me (which by the way they had to do within 48 hours of purchasing it).
Or
b) Format the hard drive and reinstall windows myself (got a legit copy of Windows 8 sitting here), because I really don’t want the extra Asus stuff that’s installed on it, it’ll probably void the warranty, but I don’t care, I’m claiming it on tax anyway.
I’ll just leave it going overnight and let it backup the 60 odd Gig of Steam games I’ve downloaded since the weekend onto my external HD so I don’t have to redownload them again, and I’ll deal with it tomorrow.
Edit: I just thought, it’s got 2 hard drives in it, one of which has the OS on it, so would I have to format just that one, or both? Any info would be much appreciated.
If you think it’s a problem with the OS, you want to format that one. I would suggest going through your programs and deleting anything you don’t know what it’s for(check it out first to see what it does). It fixed my networking issues.
Everytime I boot it up it comes up with a message on the bottom right of the screen saying “couldn’t connect to a windows service”I uninstalled the one thing that may be causing a problem, and it still won’t let me open Chrome.
I’ve made my decision, gonna do a fresh install of Windows, and format the other drive as well just to be sure, I’m assuming that I would have to format the non-OS drive first. Probably won’t be able to do it till tonight though, stupid laptop went into sleep mode during the night, and stopped the backup.
Thanks for your help 🙂
With the formatting it really depends on the reasoning for formatting… If you think windows has simply borked itself, just format the OS drive… If you suspect virus, then you can be safe and format both, or try and clean the second drive
Goddammit! Won’t even let me back up my steam games, gets to 5.2 GB and won’t go any further. Just gonna take it to work and format both drives and reinstall the OS while I’m there.
That’s… odd… are you doing a straight copy of the steamapps folder or are you using the steam “backup” feature?
I’ve found the backup feature to be very… hit or miss 😛
but never had issues copying the steamapps folder
Using the backup feature.
You can always try just copying the folder… If you then place the folder back into steam once it’s re-installed it’ll still go to install all the games, but when it finds the files it goes “oh well” and finishes the installation XD
works everytime…
If you’re interested the folder in question is “steamapps\common” which is located wherever your steam is installed to
Cheers man, that’s a big help.
if you have any questions hit me up… you have my twitter and stuff, feel free to contact me
http://www.howtogeek.com/107511/how-to-boot-into-safe-mode-on-windows-8-the-easy-way/
Have a look towards the bottom of the page about how to boot into safe mode and do the version where you boot with msconfig and select the network option. If you can log in with that, it might be something recoverable.
Though if you’re running a brand new OEM computer, it’s probably chock full of bloatware and junk it’s often a good plan to wipe it and start fresh anyway. That said, my laptop is ASUS and from what I recall before I wiped it, it didn’t really come with much, I think it’s because they’re too cheap to even fill it with junk…
Had a game of Dino Shooty Bang Bang with @pixel_the_ferret_viking, @rize, @sernobulus, and @f4ction tonight, I think it could be a really fun game, but I’m absolutely crap at it. Spent the whole match using nothing but the pistol because I had no idea what buttons on the keyboard did what, accidentally set off a couple of grenades in the shooty room (room with all the guns) too.
Using the keyboard and mouse feels so weird to me too, I’ve always been a console gamer, and I think it’s gonna take some getting used to. I find it a bit overwhelming, there’s just so many buttons on the damn thing, I don’t know what to press.
Thanks for the game guys, hope I didn’t drag you down too much /o\
Edit: Also @rize, saw you were playing Nation Red the other day, what’s it like? Any good?
As long as you have fun, it doesn’t matter how good or bad you are!
I had a blast tonight, But i can understand how Mouse and KB can be overwhelming… you get used to it pretty quickly though… If not, you can always give it a go, plugging in a controller, apparently the game has “Partial Controller support”
Yeah, I checked up on the store page after I asked you. I’ll practice a bit by myself before our next match I think.
No probs… even if you want a practice match with a buddy, i’ll be happy to jump in and help you, just give me a shout out
You’re too kind, lowering yourself to help a noob. This is exactly what I was talking about the other day, you guys are so awesome and understanding.
I’ll jump on and give it a shot when I can, never played it so we can learn together \o/
Yeah, it’s tough to help out without voice chat. Next time, feel free to jump in TeamSpeak!
Nation Red isn’t bad. It’s very basic but it’s good fun.
Yeah don’t worry about jumping on Teamspeak, even if you jump in without a mic, and just listen to us being idiots, works perfectly well 😛
Everyone – “Hey, where’s nob”
Nob – “Oh GOD!”
*Nob runs by followed by a T-rex
Nob – “T-REX T-REX T-REX T-REX T-REX T-REX T-REX T-REX T-REX T-REX T-REX T-REX T-REX T-REX”
*Nob is repairing generator*
Not nob – “Uhhh, nob. Look out for the …”
*Nob flies off cliff after getting charged by dinosaur*
Not nob – “Nevermind”
I don’t like to talk, for two reasons 1) I’ll keep my wife awake, and a tired and angry wife does not a happy monkey make. And 2) I hate the sound of my voice.
Also, it’s embarrassing when people have to point out basic controls to you.
Nothing embarrassing about it when the controls aren’t intuitive 😛
As i said above, even if you join, if only to listen to what we’re up to… There’s a text function within teamspeak to communicate… Not saying this to pressure you or anything, and if you’re not comfortable with it it’s totally fine… Took a while for me to warm up to the idea 😛
I don’t talk :P. It’s good enough to just sign in on TeamSpeak to hear what the others have to say and there’s in-game chat in most games (I think it’s the Y key on Orion)
You can use a controller but there isn’t an option to invert Y axis which is just plain wrong. Gave up and started using M&K which I’m also pretty bad with.
You seem to have the necessary lack of motor skills to make for a really interesting game of dota 2 =P I love getting on that game piss drunk and playing like an idiot xD Drives all the people on my team crazy!
Drunk Dota is best Dota – I love the amount of trolling options.
It’s just sooooo effective against people who take that game way too seriously =p which is like half the people playing! LOVE DOING IT! Especially if you’re playing like Tiny or Bloodseeker, you can silence your own team mates or toss them into an enemy ambush….
Yes yes I’m evil but it’s only because I’ve been in so many games of dota 2 where dickheads just start swearing at you.
I saw you guys start playing but it started too late for me 😛
If someone could send me the TeamSpeak details via Twitter DM so I’m ready for next time, that would be great! Pretty sure it changed ages ago and I haven’t been on since.
Space Hulk $2.50 on steam at the moment. I’ll take that action.
Spoiler: it’s shit. Really painful controls, slow and sluggish, ugly looking. Gave up approximately one mission in, won’t go back.
Ah, that’s a shame. Still, I’ll check it for myself. Maybe it got patched since you tried it. I’ll report back and let you know.
Dawn of the First Day.
10 hours remain.
So the Steam Summer team event has changed. First place still gets 30 people winning 3 games, but now second place team gets 20 and 2, and third gets 10 and 1.
Suddenly that Reddit plan is stuffed and all the teams are competing as you’d expect. Valve hit the nail on the head, I think.
Glad they picked it up fairly early I mean they would of noticed after the third day that something fishy was happening when you’d have one team completely dominate the scoring by all the other team scores combined
I actually liked the Reddit idea cause at least everyone gets a chance to win stuff, however, the awesome thing about this change is that not only does Valve get control of the system back, they’ve done so in a way that means more people get a chance to win stuff. It’s win-win.
I got my first comment on my blog today,and what made it even better is that it’s from one of the biggest names in quilting, they call the her the “voice of quilting” because she hosts this big quilting podcast. Quite a nice thing to wake up to. 🙂
How is she not the queen of quilting? Someone really dropped the ball there.
Did you email her back?
So I finally had a look at the steam summer sale badges. I have gotten 5 copies of Card 3 so far :/
Want another one?
Sure, I’ll trade you a copy of Card 3, for your…ahh copy of Card 3? Deal?
Sell the spares! and use the funds to get the cards you don’t have!
…….
Or you could be sensible and use the funds to buy games that are heavily discounted =p
I have a double of card 8 if you want it
Do you want card 4? I have card 3 but the 4 is a spare.
That would be awesome (@freya and @scree).
@redartifice
Just got to chapter 2 in the Witcher!
Did you choose Roche or Iorveth?Roche, figured he hadn’t led me wrong yet.Then I’m afraid this is where we must part ways old friend. I went with Iorveth, something about supporting a dragon slayer and a sorceress that seemed more appealing to me =D Btw how absolutely f-u-c-k-e-d was that fight with Letho?! I died like 12 times =@For those of you wondering these are Witcher 2 spoilers, don’t click if you haven’t gotten past Chapter 1 in the game.
I didn’t have much trouble with him- as I said, I was playing on easy and wasn’t getting enough of a challenge, for most of the first act.On normal the guy blocks all of your attacks! His Quen makes him invincible and if you get hit by his Igni you lose 30% of your health… If he hits you with a sword attack and pops a bleed DoT you lose 30% of your health =,= And the shit part is I didn’t even realize the fight was coming so I had no potions active on me!…. Basically you have to dodge all his attacks and use Aard and Yrden like crazy +_+ IMO he was harder than the Kayran >.<I chose Roche. Roche is an interesting guy where Iorveth seemed a bit nutty. Also the guy was helping Geralt prove his innocence, seemed like a dick move to betray him for a tree-hugging terrorist.What do you think of the King in the second chapter? I think he’s an incredibly well-written character.
there should be an actual Kotaku Australia Forum
Isn’t that what TAY is?
sorta but an actual forum would be better
Well in a forum situation everyone creates individual topics for whatever they want to talk about and that kind of segregates the community? In TAY anyone can chime in if they happen to see a post that seems interesting to them! I prefer TAY after having been a part of a few gaming forums personally =\
One thing that took some getting used to in TAY is that it’s a new post every week, so old topics get left in the dust. I’m on plenty of forums and they get dull. TAY is like one big conversation that just rolls on and I like it that way.
Damn Steam Sale, I’ve spent all my money, but there’s still games I want that I may never even play :p
Oh well, just gonna ad all the ones I would’ve bought to my wishlist and hope they all come back on sale on the last day.
Dammit @freezespreston, that comment was not code for send me gifts.
Thanks anyway man, can’t wait to get into Lego Marvel, you’re a freakin’ legend man.
NO MOAR GIFTS DAMMIT!
Well alright then…
Bloody hell greenius, you guys are so generous.
Think I’m gonna really enjoy Real Horror Stories, better pick up some adult sized nappies first though I think.
Thanks so much man.
It’s like 30 cents, no biggie 😀
I don’t trust your wishlist! You had Sleeping Dogs on there!
I’m beginning to see the path of the dark side in your names… you start off as a generous jedi, who’s now broke and resorts to his evil ways after the 1st of July =P
Like I said the other day, I could totally play through it again one day, plus moar Steam achievements \o/, if you’ve seen my XBox gamerscore you’ll know I’m an achievement whore.
You don’t know the power of the dark side.
The true spirit of PC gaming and Steam sales. The entire catalog is just one big wishlist, isn’t it?
@dc! Thank you so much for Brothers! SO.DAMN.NICE!
Edit: for the record, no i didn’t have it and the only reason why it wasn’t on my ever growing steam wish list was because i didn’t realise it was out on PC XD
Yessss. Enjoy, my friend!
Success! 😀
Transformers is out today, I really liked FOC Multiplayer I’m still unsure how much of a online presence Xbox One/PS4 will have with the new game, we’ll see I guess.
Ok so I just found out Evolve is being released on the 21st of October… I’m going to take two weeks off from work that month with Mordor and DA:I coming out as well +_+
Are any peeps getting evolve know which platform they’re getting it on?
I was gonna pick it up on Xbone, but if it’s cheap enough I might grab it on steam as well.
Get it on PS4! =P
Might be able to afford a PS4 by then.
Totally off-topic advice request: I’m renovating my shed to be a half shed & half office/gaming room. With two young kids I just don’t have the time the finish it (I’ve done wall/foundation/general structural restrengthening, most of the gib board walls, windows (sans sills).
I need the walls finished, a gib (or equivalent) ceiling with access to storage space from the shed side, window sills, and skirting boards and architrave. The room’s about 4m x 8m.
I got a quote back from a builder for $2100 – but I also have a mate who is a qualified builder but hasn’t worked for about three years who says he’d be willing to do it for about $740. I’m torn on which way I should go, as the former means I cut into a huge chunk of my savings for a new gaming rig. Any thoughts?
Oh god. Yes. Please yes.
http://gematsu.com/2014/06/tecmo-koei-teases-ar-surge-localization
(I’m probably the only one that cares, but this is basically the Ar Tonelico II successor we deserved, instead of the one we got)
Got a good confidence boost in LoL yesterday evening,
I managed to beat a team with Diamond/Plat level smurfs in it. For those that don’t know what a smurf is, think a well skilled player that’s quite high in the online rankings that chooses to play on a second account that’s usually at a much lower rating. The reasons for this can vary but yeah that’s what I was up against and he was bloody good playing as Zed (Ninja-like assassin that’s very quick and very difficult to catch out, using shadows to jump into different places, including over walls) while I was playing as Xerath (An artillery-like mage that is not very mobile, however he makes up for it with incredible firepower at long range, so someone like Zed could easily run circles around me being fast and a melee character, where Xerath is weakest).He wasn’t my lane opponent but after 10-15 minutes passed we were crossing blades and spells quite often as I got a fair few kills early game against my lane opponent Brand (A fire mage on-fire guy that likes to burn things and people). Most of the time he outsmarted me with unpredictable moves and knowing when I was most vulnerable to his attacks, however other times I managed to catch him out unexpectedly with my character’s range. I was coordinating very well with our jungler Wukong (Monkey warrior with a power-pole from Dragonball basically) that we managed to keep Zed from being a game-ending threat and they ended up surrendering with the amount of pressure we kept putting on.
I was really happy after that win not only because we beat that smurf player, but because I was able to do it with a character that you wouldn’t see played that often online 🙂
Edit: Wow that was a longer post than I thought it’d be, I’ll spoiler tag it as lots here won’t care about LoL nor know what the deal with it is 😛
is this in normals? 😛 I’ve been seeing a lot of diamond/plats in normal that play like silver/gold. I don’t get why people even smurf, other than playing with pre-30 friends
Wukong IS Monkey from Monkey Magic: Journey to the West
Splinter Cell Blacklist is $10.
It’s more than worth that, go to it.
Is it like Splinter Cell games of old? I didn’t mind Conviction, but preferred Pandora Tomorrow and Chaos Theory by far
I didn’t play conviction, came straight from Chaos Theory.
It has the mark & execute mechanic, but it hit all my sneaky bastard buttons and you can play the whole game non-lethally. I enjoyed it a lot.
You should check out Conviction. It annoyed hardcore Splinter Cell fans for some reason but I thought it was pretty good.
Maybe eventually. I have Pandora Tomorrow sitting there on my PS3 dash just waiting…
Pandora Tomorrow is probably my favourite that i’ve played so far… I recommend giving it a go
I dunno, it’d have to top Chaos Theory.
It annoyed hardcore fans because it was marketed to action movie wankers, people didn’t bother to consider that it was an attempt to get other people looking at it and then were too proud to admit they were completely wrong and it was exactly as stealth friendly and mostly as non-lethal capable as the other games in the series and the only real difference it that it was possible to survive a limited firefight because they managed to make Fisher able to actually shoot this time. There were places where it was fucking hard to avoid a fight and a few places where it was impossible but survival by cunning and trickery was the smart way to win.
I really enjoyed Conviction and Sam Fisher’s dress sense in it directly informs how I will be dressing in cooler climes. (Seriously. I wore stuff he wore a couple winters ago and got loads of compliments. Positive reinforcement is the best reinforcement!)
Just started playing SC:B.
I’m in the same boat. Straight from Chaos Theory.
Good to be back in the goggles.
Playing on Perfectionist, so no mark and execute, which might make it more like the old stuff.
Was Chaos Theory the one that was on GameCube?
I borrowed it from my friend a few years ago in a trade for Twin Snakes. Kinda… haven’t gotten around to playing it yet. I think I tried to give it back to him once but he wasn’t fussed about it 😛
Yeah, Blacklist is definitely more Conviction then Chaos Theory/Pandora Tomorrow.
Seems like the reddit plan for Steam is still taking the lead =P Purple wins today!
GO TEAM PURPLE!
@kermitron, thanks for Space Hulk mang, you’re the best.
Oh, and don’t blame me, I voted for Kodos.
I hope it’s fun! I’ve been eyeing it for awhile since I had a passing affair with space Hulk (the board/tabletop game) when I was a kid. I’ve not played this version myself but at 90% off how could I resist? It didn’t review that well but I feel like it will have a lot of multiplayer value and it seems most of the TAYbies have it.
Might be good for short strategy gaming sessions (since our various attempts to get a CiV game going seem to always fail).
I had that gift to me as well and noticed something really dodgy. You get one of the DLC packs from their dodgy PvZ clone lane defense game
That’s… weird?
Just an attempt to try and get people to go, well I have the DLC, I might as well buy this dodgy cash in game since otherwise I can’t ever use the DLC I have
Off sick from work today… Currently laying in bed with 2 dogs on top of me snoring away and a hot cup of coffee… If that’s not enough to make you feel good i don’t know what is
Sounds like you had a ruff night…
2 women on top of you instead? =P
Hope you feel better soon man.
So I finally took the plunge and put my Board game collection in BGG – If anyone was curious here it is.
http://boardgamegeek.com/collection/user/gingerchris86
It doesnt have any of my Collectible games – Attackwing or Star wars or Magic or ST2E. Because that would be a nightmare.
You have 54+ board games?! Holy shit!
I have 4.
3 of those are just different versions if Monopoly :3
7/8 of those are Expansions, about 4 are Anton’s. So I’m probably closer to 40
I have 2. Monopoly and The Cave. I had a lot on my “to buy” list but damn, shit’s expensive yo.
I dunno, you could always use more…
(My collection is meagre, but growing, and will grow)
Mine is still growing, I’ve got about 5 more coming care of Kickstarter. Then I’ve got a few more I’ve seen thanks to ShutUp & Sit Down and BoardGameGeek
The one SU&SD really sold me on was Suburbia, which is great. I need to grab that expansion
Blueprints is grabbing me, So is Ugg-Tect
Blueprints looks pretty cool.
Nice collection! Kudos for Smallworld which is still one of my favourites!… i suck at it, but damn its fun 😛
The problem with Smallworld for me is getting other people to play it?
yup, luckily i have 2 other mates pretty keen on it, so we get the odd game in 😛
Here’s mine: http://boardgamegeek.com/collection/user/negativezero
But it was done off the top of my head with most of my games in storage so I couldn’t check. May be missing stuff.
Yay RFTG!!!
How’s Tanto Cuore?
I haven’t ever found any willing victims to play my copy (my usual gaming group is 5-6 people, and it’s 2-4 players), but I’ve played the iOS port a fair bit. It’s fun but it’s basically Dominion and the theme is more than a little odd. Haven’t tried expansions which might change it up a bit, but the main issue is that the cards you play with are always a fixed set.
If you’re looking for a Dominion-like that actually has some strategy and depth to it (much more than the original game IMO) then Heart of Crown is the best of them.
I’ve heard really good things about Barbarossa and El Alamein as well, that they’re extremely good, but the artwork on them is far enough into the pervy side of things that I don’t think I’ll ever find people to play my copies.
Pretty sure ours is bigger 😉
Proof? :p
(I wouldnt be surprised :D)
Over the years of TAY experience, I had constantly heard of the horror of Steam sales, having never used Steam I chuckled at the “supposed” dangers of these events.
I have now just started using Steam.
OH DEAR GOD WHAT HAVE I DONE TO MYSELF!!!!
In the last few days I think I have bought 11-12 games, that’s normally an entire annual amount.
But it is just so damn tempting, just $3 there, maybe $10 here OH GOD!!!
You would think I would have listened, you would think that TAY had been screaming warnings.
Oh the horror…
Oh look, new specials!
THere’s a reason I, as a non-PC focused gamer, have over 150 steam games.
(Mostly humble bundles and things like “Star Wars complete” or “Civ IV complete,” but still.)
Seen a couple of those, I managed to run away screaming before purchasing.
Half the time you can pick up a game plus all the DLC on a Steam sale cheaper than the DLC by itself on console. Which is why, as a mainly console gamer, I now have over 300 games in my Steam library. Though now that I have a shiny PC, I’ve been playing a bit more on PC recently.
Welcome to the joy of steam sales my friend XD
It’s evil, EVIL!!!!
Just be thankful that the publisher packs aren’t there.
50 bucks, get real I’m not paying $50 for a pack of games I don’t really want. Probably not anything decent in here anyway. I mean for $50 what would I get only Stalker, all the dawn of wars (1+2), company of heroes, Titan quest and a bunch of other stuff
Oh god the amount of times i’ve hovered over the “purchase” button to that god damn “ID” developer pack when it was there XD…
I managed to pick up almost the entirety of THQ’s catalogue for $26 a few years back in a Christmas sale.
Morning of my yearly performance review, I get an email cc-ing my boss saying what a disaster something wasn’t done, implying it was my fault. It’s definitely not my fault, but I probably should have been following up more to avoid it (really didn’t have time). This will undoubtedly dominate the discussion in my review, despite having a pretty good year. FML, seriously. I need a new job.
You know you’re doing a good job when no one notices you! Soon as someone notices you chances are you’ve fucked up =_= This is why I never give my 100% to my jobs anymore, I give them about 60-70% and the other 30% to Kotaku <3
Yeah, my boss works on the other side of the office and I rarely ever see him. He only ever hears about anything if it’s bad news.
My last review he said that I only seem to do the bare minimum and leave work at 5 every day. I had to get a director to verify that it was total bs and that I’d been stressed out and back till 7.30pm every single day. He eventually said that he acknowledged that, but by then it was too late and my review had already gone through.
Also every single review I have is a 360 degree review, where they ask various staff members of different levels of their impression of me. My team is the only one that gets this. They could pretty much say anything, and even if it’s them giving some sort of constructive criticism (usually just to show that they did put some thought into it) I’ll hear about it and it seems to be used as an excuse to write something negative. It’s pretty frustrating being at being at the mercy of all of your colleagues once every six months.
EDIT: Yeah my review went exactly as I thought. All good except I need to show more pro-activeness and used todays email as the sole example. Never mind the six months of making sure everything else ran perfectly.
Yeah sounds like you need to find another job! It makes all the difference in the world being at a workplace that appreciates you. I actually show up to work an hour early everyday and don’t mind staying back late whenever I need to because I know people notice!
Just a friendly reminder that if you plan on crafting badges during the Steam sales, clean up your wishlist! You can win up to the top 3 games (by rank) on your wishlist, so you’re better off putting the ones you want/most expensive up top.
Looking at the list of free games given out, there’s some pretty terrible ones there 😛
I would love to craft badges but I haven’t even gotten one yet
You actually go into the draw if you craft any badge, not just the summer sale one
Does it have to be crafted on the day your team wins? Gah! I need to get to crafting!
Yes
People who contributed to the teams points when then win (or now get 2nd or 3rd) are in the draw. It also gets you an extra one (or two if you win) summer sale cards
I’ve crafted several badges but purple team only won the first day.
I crafted a bunch of badges the week before the sale, too. Lesson learned I guess!
Thanks colourbro, good idea
I’m crafting the money badge. =P
Gotta love the poor person who got Onion dino shooty as their free game
Okay, as I’m a complete ignoramus in regards to Steam, what are these badges and how does one craft them.
Also, what’s with these cards?
As I said, ignoramus.
If you collect a set of those cards, you can “craft” them into a badge. When you do, you get a little game related emoticon you can use and a background (or similar)
You get cards by playing games or trading/buying the cards.
ATM, if you craft a badge, you get entered into a draw for your “team,” and you could win free games.
Trading cards are something that steam introduced a while ago. Games have a set of cards that you get from playing the game which you can then buy and sell on the market. When you get a full set of cards you can craft a badge from them, which is a little picture that can appear on your profile and increases your steam level. You also get a profile background and en emoticon based around the game you crafted it for.
During the summer sale there is special summer sale cards that you get for voting in the community choice poll as well as for buying games. When you craft a badge it adds points to your team and the people on the team with the most points goes into the draw to win free games from their wishlists.
If yo look at your profile you will have links off to your inventory and badges. Also directly from the drop down.
Thanks @redartifice and @tigerion , I am still a ignoramus, but now slightly less so 🙂
I now feel the desire for more of these cards and badges…
Damn you Steam.
but i want ALL THE GAMES on my wishlist XD
Depending how how you feel about guilt, that is a dangerous statement to make on TAY 😛
but i want NONE OF THE GAMES on my wishlist XD
Steam servers must be getting slammed. My downloads are only hitting around 100kb/s. Also, I just bought 3 new games. DAMN YOU STEAM SALES!
EDIT: Oh wait, 40kb/s D=
that’s interesting, my peak is 1.1 MB/s and current is… 1.1 MB/s 😛
Pixel is using all of Nob’s bandwidth!
JERK! (its actually fixed up now, I’m getting a nice 2.5MB/s)
I got horrific slow speeds when I was using a Steam limiter script to prevent non-freezone download (because new PC, basically – ALL OF THE GAMES = terrabytes of download).
Eventually I just upgraded my plan and let it choose its own servers – back up to 1.5’ish.
Eh, that seems about normal. I usually get around 200Kb/s varying up and down when downloading Steam games.
Really looking forward to Destiny. Getting hype. Starting to be one of those games my mind wanders to frequently, which I haven’t really had about a game in a while.
Reminder: TAY/KotakuAU group for Destiny here: http://www.bungie.net/en/Groups/Members?groupId=100780
I was curious as to what class most people are going to play as, cause that’s how I’m going to gauge what class I’m going to choose.
I was leaning towards hunter at this point, but each class looks really cool :3
I’ll probably be going Titan or Warlock personally.
Played a little bit as each class in the Alpha. Enjoyed Warlock the most, to be honest. Enjoyed the damage and control aspects of the special and grenades. Was a bit glass-cannon at times, but I’ll deal with that as necessary.
Yeah, I get a feeling lots of people will choose the Warlock and Titan classes.
I think I’ll go Hunter, cause I like sniping, and it’ll give good variety if I play with other TAYbies, which hopefully I will 🙂
For people interested in the game, I saw this dodgy post on Ozbargain this morning :P.
You can pre-order the game on Amazon and you’ll immediately get sent a (multiplatform) key for the beta. Since Amazon don’t charge until the game ships, people just immediately cancelled their orders and kept the key.
https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/150186
Could somebody send me the details for TAY Teamspeak please.
As the Steam addiction has started and I may start playing some of these games, I thought I would start driving you all crazy with my monotonous, monotone voice.
Enjoy!
Email:
hugo(dot)barbarian(at)yahoo(dot)com(dot)au
Two things on my mind:
After playing two Vanillaware games (Dragons Crown and Murasama Rebirth) they both seem ridiculously pretty and a bunch of fun but the game play gets old very quickly and super repetitive. Is this how they are or am I just a horrible old man?
Why is it any time someone starts discussing some hassles with Pc gaming there’s always a bunch of people that have to call everyone liars and Pc gaming is flawless. It’s really irritating and it shouldn’t be.
That’s one of the reasons I don’t PC game to be honest.
The particular members of the community that are like that (pompous f***s), are a big turn off for those looking to get into PC gaming. I don’t want anything to do with those who go around seriously proclaiming PC as “master race”, or act like playing consoles somehow makes you lesser.
To be fair, both the PC / console community has those kind of people in it. As someone who primarily plays games on PC I’m not going to say any community is better then the other.
The Wii U crowd is possibly worse. Why can’t people just enjoy gaming in all forms?
There’s a Wii U crowd now?
Party?
Mario Party!
Three’s a crowd!
I have to say the out of all the fanboyism the last console wars brought about, the ones supporting the WiiU were the most fanatical of the bunch o.0
Having said that @tigerion’s comment further down captures the issue pretty well, anyone who thinks their gaming platform of choice is better than others is just being an imbecile. All platforms have their advantages and disadvantages, at the end of the day what really matters is the games and which ones you have a personal preference for.
Edit – Grammar =D
Console fanboyism pales in comparison to the people who worship the almighty Apple, or the followers of Stallman. Or the vile vile people who can’t accept the truth that Vim is a vastly superior editor to Emacs.
Oh, I’m aware each community has its own bad side, but the PC community bad side (from an outside perspective) appears to have a degree of pomposity far greater than the console communities bad side.
I know the console crowd usually fling insults around, and try and dig at other consoles, and are typically just brats and little shits, but I don’t see them as being as pompous as the PC crowd (I know I’m saying pompous a lot, but that’s the thing I despise most).
They’re kinda more about putting others down, while PC are more about putting others down, while puffing themselves up.
This is only my view of the bad members of each community though! I don’t think anyone here is pompous, or arrogant, or a brat, or a little shit :3
You might be right but I think that is part of a subset of PC gaming that comes through. There is a group that are basically graphic whore, performance junkies. It is all about pushing the highest settings at the fastest speed.
They are just as pompus with each other, how dare you comment in this section, your rig isn’t even water cooled.
It probably comes from having the superior platform. Pompous is easier when superior. 😉
Pompous is easier when you have less tact than the average person 😉
Also, people who have to tote their “superiority” are usually trying to compensate for, other, things…
Like small junk.
😛
Compensating?
Complimenting.
That’s exactly what someone compensating for something would say!
;P
@liondrive YEAH WELL AT LEAST I’M NOT A CRAZY INTERNET KILL GUY
That’s exactly what a crazy internet kill guy compensating for something would say!
;P
Yeah, those people are assholes. They exist in a lot of other places though, not just PC. They’re actually who Yahtzee was satirizing when he coined the ‘glorious PC master race’ term in the first place.
WHHHAAAAAATT?!?! I take offense at that statement! At best I’m an ass not pompous at all!
I find it really goes both ways. Anybody who thinks their choice of primary platform is better just comes across as an twat. People who will no accept that a PC will hve better graphical performance than a console. Or that mods can improve a game.
They are the same type of person who can’t understand that something that is easy to just plug and play frm the couch is preferred. Or the a console is better for in person co-op.
Looking at the article I assume freeze is referencing it doesn’t look too bad compared to some of the ones I have seen. I think most of the problem with these type of things is whenever there is an article like this talking about a problem with PC/MS/Sony?Nintendo/Handheld you get people from outside that ‘camp’ coming in and saying hahahahaha see this is why my choice is so superior to yours.
MMMMAAAAAASTER RRAAAAAA… oh.
It’s how they are. They’re just a fairly oldschool design really. George Kamitani’s background was in arcade brawlers and that spills through into the games he designs.
Odin Sphere is a better game than the other two you mentioned as there are five characters who play differently and their stories are each shorter, but again, you’re largely just brawling through dudes. But you do use their souls to grow fruit that you can eat to gain levels. So that’s a thing.
I personally love the simplicity and the visuals they have, but I found I hit similar issues playing the Muramasa DLC. Wish they’d accelerated the level gain rate or something, because they want you to grind for ages and ages to unlock everything in the DLC stories and the payoff is just not worth it there. At least in the main game you were unlocking new endings.
Regarding the PC thing, that’s a universal gaming issue, ESPECIALLY when trying to resolve a problem. A lot of people take it as calling the game bad, not reporting a functional issue.
To be fair, there’s also a lot of people that have one minor issue and call the game the shittiest thing they’ve ever played. That’s just asking to be flamed.
“I’m not experiencing the problem, so your PC must be shit.”
I’ve only played Muramasa on Wii, but you’re probably right. It’s kinda like how I feel about WayForward. Their games are maybe a little barebones and on the shorter side. But they’re just so damn pretty on top of it that I don’t care about any of the other shortcomings 😛
Ahhhh, this is what I was looking for.
http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2011/05/16/his-dark-thesis
After a month or so of not being in the mood and about 10GB of patching, I finally got around to playing Star Citizen last night. Despite some issues I’m reasonably impressed.
Since it’s quite long and because they’re working again, I’ll spoilertagify it.
It was a bit weird video wise, some artefacts that clearly shouldn’t be there in the hangar, tabbing out & back seemed to resolve the overwhelming majority of them but there were still a small handful in the actual sim mostly reflection based, nothing too disruptive, what should be a small light sheen on the cockpit glass looks like a small semi-opaque block instead. There’s no driver updates to be had so I’ll just have to wait for a patch I suspect. The mouse controls are frankly a load of arse, its using a similar model to Freelancer where the ship chases the mouse cursor and it kind of feels like the area around the ship is divided into a grid, whenever the mouse input registers as being in a different segment the thrusters suddenly shift and the ship bounces around in a weird way that sort of feels like it’s run over a cat in the road or something. The good thing is that with the bit of control I tried with the joystick, that problem wasn’t there. I didn’t end up using the stick because despite being specifically referenced in the patch notes, the G940 isn’t listed in the controls. It works but I didn’t want to piss about finding out what all the buttons did since it was late so I just used the mouse & keyboard since at least the controls were shown. Unfortunately despite having a profile listing in the editor, TrackIR isn’t working in the game yet, it’ll be a lot nicer once it is..
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I had a hell of a tough fight in Vanduul Swarm. Since I’m poor I’ve only got the Aurora and it’s default peashooters so I started as the most underpowered ship in the fight, 2 laser cannons, 4 missiles and a pretty small shield reserve. I flew boldly into the fight and promptly got hammered by the first Vanduul scavenger, nipped off to recharge the shields and by then the enemy had moved on to my wingmen and so I slipped in behind the guy who was attacking me and started pouring fire into his arse, I finally breached his shields and stared doing hull damage and my lasers stopped firing, out of power. I didn’t even think of that so I switched over to the weapons monitor so I could keep an eye on it and let them recharge, when they were back up to 50% I resumed firing, I didn’t even breach his shields this time before the power ran out and most of the shots hit. When I said these guns were peashooters, I really wasn’t exaggerating their lameness much. I stuck on his tail and got the guns back up to full charge, lined up and opened up again, shields down, hull damage mounting and finally an explosion, first blood to me. I managed a surprisingly fast second kill, I can only think my wingmen had done fair bit of shield damage since I smashed through them and destroyed his ship in one sustained burst. The third guy was taken down by one of the AI and that was the end of the first round.
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The second was much the same as the first, a lot of manoeuvring and little firing until I was in the right spot, the guns might track to a degree (I’d take them off the turrets but the Aurora can only mount turreted guns) but you still need to be reasonably accurate to land enough hits to be effective. I got all of the kills in the second round but took a bit of damage from a bit of enemy fire that got through my shield. The third round was the first encounter with an enemy ace, The Little King, it was also my first go with a missile, took that fucker down in one shot, sic semper tyrannis and all that. I managed a fast kill on one of his wingmen but that’s where things got a fuck of a lot harder, he exploded fairly close and the debris spiralled right into me, destroying my right gun, halving my peashooter power in a last act of defiance. Somewhere in the midst of this I also lost one of my AI wingmen, I was determined to avenge her death and plinked away at great length at her killer, between my shots and the occasional shots of my frankly crap other wingman, he got pretty heavily damaged and we chased him into an asteroid cluster where he eventually crashed. Somewhat annoying since I’d nearly finished him off.
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Rounds 4 and 5 were average but hard, I used up the 3 remaining missiles on heavier ships and ended up learning how to fight with a reasonable degree of effectiveness with a single gun, it was still pretty pissweak but I could compensate with more precision and making sure I only fired when I had enough power for a 100% burst that would all hit so I was sure to do some hull damage. It took forever, especially after the other AI wingman did the big firework but I eventually killed the last one. Onto round 6 “Elite units enroute”. It was getting late so I was going to quit here since I needed to have a shower & go to bed but then I saw the name of the enemy ace: The Priest. I wasn’t about to let that bastard get away. I’ll just shoot him down with a missi… oh, I’ve got none left. Shit. I decided to pound him with my peashooter (which is not a euphemism) until the fucker died. His 5 mates were giving me a fuck of a beating, my shields were dropping every few seconds but were rather impressively regenerating with equal speed, I was having trouble staying on the tail of this nimble prick, I was having to dump flares every so often to decoy missiles, I had to be really careful since the fight was taking place right on the simulation border and I didn’t want to lose just because I crossed the line. I swung onto his tail and managed to get a fantastic burst into his tail, breached his shield and blew off his wing which managed to fly back and hit me but thankfully didn’t break my other peashooter. I had to break off from a massive barrage of incoming fire and what looked like an attempt to ram me and he managed to limp away but I got back onto him pretty quickly and chipped more of his hull away, not quite having enough energy to deliver the kill shot. I had to extend and dodge a lot while waiting to recharge and I was starting to think I wasn’t going to survive it since my shields were dropping pretty regularly but I got lucky and they broke off fire long enough for me to move and get in on the target and finally blow the fucker into dust. Rather oddly, I think the mouse controls being a load of arse actually helped, the bouncing was acting like juking and helping evade fire even if unintentionally. It was a hell of a long fight but I managed to clear the remaining AI even though I took a decent chunk of hull damage in the process. I decided it’d be a good place to take a break, especially since the game decided to take the piss by respawning my AI wingmates and not repairing my damage.
Overall, once I can remap controls in game and once TrackIR is working, I think I’ll be playing a fair bit of it. It’s certainly a good start.
Oh man, I hate that sort of mouse control. I hope they at least give you some control options.
To clarify, when I say it’s like Freelancer, you don’t have to hold the mouse button to get the ship to chase the cursor, it follows the cursor by default and the buttons just control weapons. You can use a 360 controller or something similar and from what I’ve read it’s actually really well done. Word is they’re working on mouse controls but I don’t know if it’s just trying to fix the bounce or adding different control styles.
I’m not sure if direct pushing/pulling control would work, that’s how it worked for mouse control in TIE Fighter and that was nothing short of a nightmare to use, I remember when my joystick broke and I really wanted to vape some rebel scum and tried flying with the mouse… awful experience, I barely managed to kill anything, I was so bad it’s like I was an imperial pilot in the movies or something.
I can’t believe I’m saying this, but I hope they leave mouse control as it is.
I played a bunch of War Thunder a while back and the games always went to shit when there were lots of KBM players on one team. It was faaar to easy to win with it, and it blew the joystick and controller players away and I really don’t want to see a repeat of that.
This is precisely why I stopped playing War Thunder. I was so happy to dust off my joystick to play War Thunder (Ah the good old days of Red Baron II), but keyboard and mouse were objectively just the better control option, it’s like the KBM vs controller FPS debate, one is just objectively better than the other.
KB&M 4 LYFE!
So this “sexism in the video games industry” discussions are getting on my nerves, I’m all for equality and fairness and sure Assassins creed should of had a female character in the co op and a lot of games should give you the option to choose what gender your character is.
But an article over at RockPaperShotgun has irked me, claiming that in the Rainbow 6 Siege trailer it was a stereotypical trope and a dissapoinment that the hostage your in there to rescue is female and so it’s a form of sexism saying the females only there to be rescued even though Ubi said it’s a 50/50 on what sex the hostage is. They also make no mention to the female operative in the video.
Just irks me
Just read the article, does seem like they’re beating a dead horse with that one. I agree that the games industry is definitely sexist as it is and the comments surrounding the new AC game are unacceptable but in context of Siege, given that Ubisoft has already said there will be male hostages why write an article about how they presented the game?
Besides Siege doesn’t look that impressive to boot. Seemed like a very scripted and tightly controlled screening, something that would probably be hard to replicate when playing with a group of 4 friends.
*real multiplayer scenario with real players*
Player 1: “I’m gonna tea bag everyone of youse that die”
The thing that really irks me is how no one seems to complain about how horribly overscripted the “banter” in both R6S and The Division trailers is
I didn’t have a problem with the banter in the division trailer. It was an E3 presentation as far as I remember and with a large scope game like that they are trying to tell you everything the game can do within the gameplay. I prefer that to having somebody narrating the game play over the top of them. It’s a presentation and clearly not supposed to be realistic.
Yeah but that’s the same with all “in game multiplayer” trailers it’s all stupidely scripted stuff
It just feels so painfully artificial…
I was super impressed with it while watching it because I missed the bit where it was being narrated by the people playing. I thought that was the in-game dialogue and was amazed at how well the speech flowed 😛
Oh Pow
To anyone thinking if picking up the new Transformers Rise of the Dark Spark on X1 beware the 9gb day one patch.
And the disc version of Sniper Elite 3 is said to have a 10GB one. I’m beginning to think the XB1 is the console for people without download limits
That is balls.
Just gonna leave this here. https://twitter.com/cj_svenson/status/481629566369161216
Gawrsh, @cj, leaving that stuff here, where someone can trip on it.
Clean up your stuff!
How did you not buy me ten of those?
MOQ was probably 100.
Fine.
Seven.
I know I dont show my face around here too often… and when I do Im not the most positive guy around, but….
There are an awful lot of bullshitters in the world huh?
What happened?
I bet a male cow had a poo on him
If thats like a uber version of a bird droppin a deuce on you, being lucky and all, Id welcome a flying cow.
Just between work and the place im living for the time being, people say and promise so many things… then just dont live up to their word.
Drives me insane when im just trying to push forward.
I know precisely what you mean sire! All the feels! Hope you get stuff sorted soon!
This was originally going to be a reply to @hugo_the_hungarian_barbarian about Steam trading cards but it turned into some 900+ word wall of textplanation, so I guess it’s helpful for anyone who’s interested in learning about the Steam trading card and badges system!
So from my understanding…
Certain games have Steam trading cards. Most of them state whether they have cards or not on their store page but some games had them added in later on via updates, so games you already own might have had trading cards implemented in later. At the top of Steam there are the menus: Store, Library, Community and “Greenius” (I assume it’s specific to each account name). Under the “Greenius” menu you can click on Badges which shows the list of games that you own that have trading cards.Games will usually have a set of cards from 5-15 and you’ll get these cards by “playing” the game (it works a little differently for free to play games, so just ignore that for now :P). Once you have one of each card from a set you can craft the badge. Crafting the badge adds it to your Steam profile, gives XP towards your Steam level and you’ll get a random background and chat emoticon from that set.
Honestly, I think it’s a waste of money crafting badges and I’m happy to just sell the individual cards on the marketplace for Steam wallet funds. Most cards will sell for 15 cents or so (on average) and I’ve got around $35+ from just selling cards every now and then. If you’re interested in the rewards (background pictures and emoticons), you’re better off buying them individually as most of them can be found for 3 cents :P. I will say, it’s definitely an interesting concept and it’s fun trading with others, but the opportunity cost is a bit too high for me and it’s fun playing the market too.
You don’t have to actually play the game and you can just have it open in the background (I’m actually farming cards now :P). Drops will occur at random intervals, but it’s usually around every 30 minutes or so. You will get half the cards in a set and rounded up if it’s an odd set number. So if a game you’re playing has 5 cards, you’ll earn 3 drops. If it has 8 cards, you’ll earn 4. The cards you earn will be random from that set so it’s entirely possible to get duplicates or the super rare “foil” version of the cards. Foil cards are the same as the normal card set but give more XP and rewards when crafted into a badge BUT, they are worth a lot more money ($1+ each on average). I’ve sold a single foil card for $10! There are also sale cards which for different reasons. At the moment you’ll get one for every 3 votes in the community choice, for every badge crafted during the sale and for every $10 spent on Steam.
Once you’ve earned all your card drops for a game you will not get any more by playing it. The only way for you to acquire cards is to trade with friends, or buy them on the Steam marketplace. However, this also makes you eligible for a booster pack. You can randomly get a booster pack from any eligible game that you’ve exhausted all your card drops from. They contain 3 cards from that set but are extremely rare (I’ve only ever earned one). You have to sign into Steam at least once a week to keep your booster pack eligibility. Your Steam level will determine how often booster packs drop as well (but from what I’ve heard it’s not a huge difference in the lower levels).
I usually just play games on Steam normally (play whatever game I want, regardless of whether they have cards or not) and if they have any cards, I’ll sell them to help offset some of the purchase cost. However, I’ve recently started farming Steam cards by idling games in the background. Just keep in mind that the more games you run, the lower the drop rate will be. I once ran 10 games at once for 2 hours and got nothing :P. I’ve got a bunch of cheap indie games from Humble Bundles that I probably wouldn’t have played otherwise so I’m just getting some money from them while I can :P. There are also some games which I’ve completed and uninstalled that have since had trading cards implemented. It was easy enough to re-download them for some extra money. Even classic troll gifts like The Secret of the Magic Crystals can earn you about 80 cents in free money 😮
Now… with this current Steam sale everyone is randomly assigned to a coloured team when they craft a badge or click “join team”. Each day everyone from the winning team who contributed points (by crafting a badge) will earn some extra sale trading cards. But the big thing (which I mentioned earlier) is that 30 random people from the winning team who contributed points, will earn their top 3 games on their wishlist. Steam JUST changed it so that 20 people will win the top 2 and 10 will win the top 1 from the 2nd and 3rd ranking teams. If you’re going to craft a badge during this sale and your team has a chance to be in the top 3, make sure your top 3 wishlist games are something you actually want. Some people clearly haven’t cleaned up their wishlist or arranged it appropriately and have “won” some truly terrible games :P.
This probably made you more confused but… it helped me waste time while I’m farming cards… so uh, thanks! 😀
In other words, valve like money.
GABEN *shakes fist*
I like money too!…. Sadly I like games more *cries*
Drop rate for booster packs increases by 20% for every 10 levels. So by level 50 you are getting boosters twice as often at somebody under level 10
So twice in a blue moon?
Yep. Unless you are a psycho like Flush who probably get them hourly
http://steamcommunity.com/id/flushjackson/badges
😐
…what?!
EDIT: Snowglobe level 1260!? >_>
Like I said, psycho
edit: Not to mention all his badges are level 5
Varies for me at Steam Level 50. I’m getting ’em seems like every few days.
I’m level 19 now and I’ve never seen a booster. 🙁
It also depends on how many games you have all the cards for. You are only eligible for game that you have already got all your play time drops from.
I tend to always at least get all the card drops for a game I start on, even if I don’t plan to finish the game because I can at least sell the cards to trade for other cards to get other badges. I just never seem to see booster packs until literally two minutes ago when I got one for CiV.
Wow… just wow.
It’s like an art form, a giant money grabbing, time sucking art form.
I MUST HAVE ALL THE CARDS!!!
What annoys me a bit is that it shows you incomplete badges for every compatible game you own, regalrdess if you’ve played it. I don’t want to feel like a failure for having an “incomplete” Ace of spades badge. The game sucks! I’m never playing it again! I sold the cards I earned and I’m never going back! Why not let me junk the game and it’s stupid badge so I can forget I even own it?!
Not green enough.
Some would say too green.
Some would be wrong.
They will be once you wear them? =P
Dammit, King of Fighters XIII still refuses to work. When I play it, it still tells me that the saved data that doesn’t exist has been deleted, and a loading screen shows up that never goes away. Checking for solutions online.
At least it’s happening right at the start. A mate and I played through Dead Space 3 a few weeks back and my save slot somehow corrupted halfway through the game so I had to start over midway through the game with the default equipment and no upgrades. And people said that game forgot how to do survival horror! Scared the shit out of me, I can tell you.
The solutions from SNK Playmore on the Steam forum didn’t work. Going to play UFO Aftermath instead.
Oh great, now the forums are telling me the best way to remove the problem is to install it onto a HDD smaller than 2GB. So I have to install it onto my tiny SSD? 14.8 GB left.
No. I’m not doing that.
You may be able trick it. Just a thought, but you could try installing it on the SSD, creating a save game data file, and then backup the save, uninstall, install where you want it, and paste the save game data back where it belongs?
Girlfriend driving me to work this morning, see traffic backing up in distance, start to slowly reduce speed *CRUUUUUNCH* get tail ended. Nothing serious, no one hurt, just an inconvenience (sorting insurance and whatnot). I think I need to avoid cars altogether. Or go consult a Sangoma to rid me of this wretched juju.
On a positive note ummm…. oh I know, Whoo the Sportsball team I like is still in the World Cup, Gooo team, do not try to walk it in.
Quickly! become a professional stunt driver! All these crashes and no injuries! \o/
That or take part in a Destruction Derby!
Hey good idea, I’d be awesome at destruction derby.
Guys, it’s a Christmas miracle. I managed to log onto Kotaku from my phone! And now I have nothing of interest to say. But I’m going to say it anyway. Because I’m a jerk.
JER-Oh wait, you already covered that. Carry on!
Classic!
http://youtu.be/ULk6KhOQQIs
YOU’RE SUCH A LOVELY HUMAN BEING FOR NOT GIFTING ME PART OF A GAME SERIES AND THUS FORCING ME TO BUY THE REST!
WHATTA GUY!
Nah. I’m a bit of a prick.
NO! 🙁
party on Blaghs PARTY ON!
Continuing on Steam cards, I wrote this when they first came out on how fucking brilliant it is that Valve has created a give them money engine.
http://www.pixel-otaku.com/red-rants-a-round-of-capitalist-applause-for-valve/
And that was supposed to be a reply to @greenius
@blaghman @novacascade @mythamphetamine @mawt @popdart5 @tech_knight
NUMENERA: TALES OF THE NINTH WORLD
You’ve reached the Spinneret, the tower at the centre of the Insidious Choir. What do?
TONIGHT 7:30 SA TIME
ALSO STREAMING HERE https://plus.google.com/events/csvik382st6185pa109l9r1i2cc AND HERE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWRuiLlX46A
Yay! More opportunities to screw up our sneaking skill checks cuz crikey we’re horrible at sneaking in to places so far 😛 haha
As long as nothing chaotic happens at work tonight I’ll be there.
Okay… something chaotic has happened @redartifice, I’ll probably end up being late tonight on this one due to having to stay back at work tonight, but if the machine spirit is with me tonight, I will still be able to join on time. Just giving you a heads up.
No problem man
I’m only 50/50 at this point. My girlfriend has got majorly sick overseas, so I might need to be staying back at work to sort out a way of getting her home quickly. Either way, probably won’t be in the right head space tonight. Sorry guys
No problem, hope you can sort it all out and get her back here post haste
http://steamcommunity.com/app/222940/discussions/1/864977564011201034
King of Fighters XIII can be fixed by:
1. Open game, get stuck on loading.
2. AltTab, then open the game up again.
3. Should “create save data” now, wait until box is closed.
4. AltTab 1-2 more times, you should then get “Saving Data” (Similar to this).
5. AltTab 2 more times, and the box should close and the game should open.
Seriously? How can the game not support 3TB hard drives?
Didn’t work. Guess I’m going to have to unistall and reinstall for the third time, this time with my external drive.
Could it be a problem with NTFS? Some older games have issues with being on anything other than FAT32 hard drives.
Hell if you want, I think I’ve got a 40GB IDE hard drive lying around you can have…
@redartifice @blaghman @quiz_b @tech_knight since you all expressed interest in possibly having a go at the FFG Star Wars RPG, next question is which one?
Specifically, Fantasy Flight have divided their game up into three installments. They’re doing this thing where they put out multiple passes of one as beta phases, then finalize it and print up all the materials and adventures and everything.
There are three parts:
– Edge of the Empire
– Age of Rebellion
– Force and Destiny
Edge of the Empire is complete and in its final release form. Age of Rebellion is currently in the printing stages, about to get its proper release next month. Force & Destiny is a next year project though I think the beta for it might start September or so. That’s all around training as a Jedi and stuff. Not sure how that will work with the Original Trilogy setting, so I’m assuming that it’ll either be intended to play in the Clone Wars, or it’ll be tied in with the new trilogy.
So really the options are to go with Edge of Empire or Age of Rebellion. Obviously the two can work together, but if we’re doing a simple adventure to try it out then I’d rather focus on one or the other. Edge of Empire is built around the Outer Rim. Player characters are smugglers, outlaws and mercenaries, and you’re going to be interacting with the galaxy’s underbelly, doing jobs for the Hutts or the Black Sun or maybe just chilling out in the Cantina on Mos Eisley. Maybe you could even be a member of a Jizz band. 😛
Age of Rebellion meanwhile is built around the Rebellion. Your characters would be working for the rebels fighting for freedom against the Empire. Maybe you’re an ace fighter pilot. Maybe a commando who engages in daring sabotage missions against imperial installations. Maybe you’ll be one of the many Bothans that die to bring them that information.
I’d honestly be happy doing either (and also this invitation is open to the rest of TAY as well) and since I’m thinking it’d probably take a fair bit of time to get stuff set up and everything anyway, we’d probably be looking some time in late july / august so the timing is fine for grabbing the full release of Age of Rebellion.
If for some reason people wanted to play in a Clone Wars or between-III-and-IV setting I can probably make that happen, but we’d want to go Edge of the Empire for that I think. Otherwise the way I envision it would be slotting in around the same sort of timeline spot as the Shadows of the Empire stuff, so basically after Episode IV, but before or concurrent with Episode V.
I vote for Scum and Villainy.
They have better places to hang, man.
I’m happy with scum and villainy.
Yep I vote for hanging out in Mos Eisley, maybe I can get the death sentence in thirteen systems!
You probably would need to start with just one, and let your questionable medical practices do the rest.
And if you want to be his sidekick, that’s also doable – Aqualish are a playable species in Edge of the Empire.
Handy fellow to have around, that sidekick.
He does have some issues around not liking people very much though.
Oh, Ponda Baba, you klutz.
I’m cool with whatever! #helping
It’s looking like Edge of the Empire then. This is actually probably better for me anyway, since there’s more material available and I can grab it immediately.
If people wanted to think about characters at this point, even though we’re probably a while away from actually playing, the playable races are Aqualish, Bothan, Chiss, Drall, Duros, Gand, Human (Corellian), Klatooinian, Rodian, Selonian, Toydarian, Trandoshan, Twi’lek, Weequay and Wookie.
You can be a Bounty Hunter, Colonist, Explorer, Hired Gun, Smuggler or Technician. All of those paths have multiple specializations so most likely if you have a concept in mind, there will be something we can map to it.
EDIT: Oh, left Droid off the species list. You can be a droid if you want. Want to play a late-model HK or IG assassin droid? HK-47’s cousin? It’s all doable.
I will be the Chewie to someone’s Han or vice versa if needed 🙂
Actually, if you give us a little idea what sort of plot you’re running that’d be great- heists, bounties, smuggling, Galactic civil war aligned?
Not sure yet, will investigate. Probably start with a small one-shot to see if it even works.
Ok, quick rundown of the last couple of days.
Work is hell – lots to do. Boss have been insinuating that there might not be a job for me once my contract ends at the end of July. Damn, it must be that time of the day again when I don’t have a job, only to be told I do have a job next hour, only to be told…
Wife and jr have the flu. I got it on Friday, but it bounced off within 24 hours (thank you free workplace flu shot!). Wife and kid not so lucky. Kid is now ok, which is why I’m back at work so quickly.
Steam has sucked up so much of my money it is actually really jarring to notice how much I’ve spent. Granted, even with gifts, it’s under $100 but that’s more than I normally pay for games in a three/four month period, not a fortnight.
@DC got me Gone Home, which I really want to have a crack at but haven’t had time. We’ve tried a couple of non-violent games while the toddler is around (Mass Effect 3, which the Mrs is still playing, is still going strong…but is a little violent when you play a sniper and enemy heads pop right off).
Mirrors Edge was good, but too many being shot at moments for toddler. We booted up the Wolf Among Us, only to have a toad and a chain smoking dude swear 5 times in the first three dialogue options alone. So no go there.
Stanley Parable was beyond awesome, but I ended up having to attempt to diffuse a bomb and the Mrs got really angry at me that I wasn’t doing it right, but refused to take over, so we quit the game.
In short, all work and no play makes Stan a dull boy.
OMFG I just realised that I completely forgot to say: Thank you @dc for the gift!
Costume Quest!!!!!
Ticket to ride, Reus, Tropico, Portal, Children of the nile, Shuggy, the cave, Jolly Rover, Botanicula, Lego (insert game here), Unmechanical, Brothers, Thomas Was Alone, Lucidity, The Tiny Bang Story, Puzzle bots, Need for speed
Maybe: SPAZ or Trine,
@greenius Cheers for alerting me to that $7 credit thing for the nintendo e-store! Took me a while to find how I was supposed to go about claiming it, but I did manage to! Good timing too by the looks of it. Think it’s only valid til the 30th of this month!
I recommend Pullblox World on Wii U 🙂
how does that credit thing work? Do i need to redeem it? My balance is $0
If you have a Deluxe Wii U it automatically qualifies for the Deluxe Digital Promotion. This is supposed to get you about 10% back on Wii U eShop purchases until December or so if you’ve got your Nintendo ID and Club Nintendo account linked up.
For some reason the free game from the Mario Kart 8 promotion was counted as a purchase so most people have got about 10% back on the eShop RRP ($7).
I can’t remember how or when I linked stuff up (it was months ago) but I just logged in at https://p.nintendo.net/deluxe/ and redeemed my $7 eShop credit.
That’s awesome! I got 500 points for downloading Wonderful 101 for free! If only I’d remembered about this before buying PullBlox Worudo 😛
Now I can get NES Remix or something!
I told you and Sughly about it! >:P
I didn’t listen!
You need to go here https://p.nintendo.net/deluxe/
After you’ve downloaded your first e-store thing (I think 24 hours after) you sign in there, and you get an activation code, which you then enter in where you add funds to your e-store account on the wii u itself. After entering the code, you have $7.
There is a few catches though. First being you have to own a Wii U Deluxe/Premium (whatever it’s called.) Then you need to actually purchase, or redeem a download from the store. When I got MK8, I grabbed a copy of Pikmin 3 for free, and that counted as a valid ‘purchase’.
Yeah I checked when @greenius first mentioned it and put the link up when I got Pikmin and it said I had made a valid purchase, I thought it automatically added the funds, cheers for the info.
Just had a “party” at my son’s school to celebrate their first 100 days of school. We blew bubbles, made a birds nest out of playdough, made a paper helicopter and got a balloon animal. And then I got to take him home early. \o/
And then we had to wait around for ages in the cold wind because the bus drove straight past us.
Yay for fun day! Boo to the bus though! What a bustard!
Dammit Welbot, this isn’t Page 6! 😛
Hooray! I love playdough. Can’t make enough of it.
This playdough had glitter in it and I was jealous because I never thought to do that.
Oh yeah, glitter is great. This term at Playgroup I also tried out coloured rice, rainbow spaghetti and tapioca beads. The spaghetti was very popular, but really, I could make playdough every week and the kids would be happy.
I love homemade playdough. Bought playdough just isn’t the same.
(It tastes bad.)
I wouldn’t say homemade playdough tastes *good* but yes, it’s much nicer than the bought stuff. Softer and less sticky.
This is the recipe I use: http://theimaginationtree.com/2012/04/best-ever-no-cook-play-dough-recipe.html
What’s everyone’s plans this weekend???
HUNGRY HIPPO
HUNGRY HIPPO
HUNGRY HIPPO
http://www.thehungryhippo.com/
$5 unlimited play is pretty cool
It’s aces. Going to try something new this time (which I try to do at every board game thing I go to)
I want to go to there.
Come to Adelaide and I’ll take you. Hell, it’s just around the corner from @benny’s house, we’ll do an Adel meat
I’m up for that.
Fun fact: I’ll be in Adelaide late October. My sister’s getting married in Adelaide Hills, so I kind of have to be there.
We should probably arrange something a little closer to the date though.
Yep yep!
Speaking of trying something new I got the tabletop simulator game in steam. Interesting but needs a bit more work to be viable. But a huge number of games have been created in the workshop so it could be interesting to try out if the mechanics are something you like.
At the moment I still think it is too fiddly but if they can sort out the alignment more easily then it could be worth trying a few things
Is it strange in Dota that one of the things that I most enjoy and most loathe is being focused?
When I’m a support, one of the best signs that I’m having a good game is seeing the other team blow everything on me in a team fight instead of one of the more important people.
Of course, in every other situation it sucks because I don’t get to do anything. You know, what with the frequent deaths.
Seems masochistic in nature =P
That said in a game of Dota it’s hard to find good tanks or support because everyone wants a piece of the glory pie =__= So enjoying support isn’t necessarily a bad thing =P you just need to learn to survive being whacked and getting out before you die!
It’s hard to survive when you cop a Doom ult, Disruptor ult and a Viper ult to the face when you’re a squishy little Rubick.
BKB!!!!
UFO Aftermath – Firing Wildly For Freedom
Episode 1: Brigham Begins
Brigham was just an average deeply southern guy. And then there was aliens.
In his struggle to survive, he met a partner; Layton. They agree to kill aliens together. They formed the Council of Earth, an organisation dedicated to restoring human society by killing aliens. The killing team was to be known as Phoenix Company. The first recruit was a Russian guy that was quickly renamed to J.T. Vodka.
The first mission was successful. The Council received another recruit; a bald guy that was named Rudyard. His voice acting was the worst of them all. Rudyard looked like he’d make a good sniper when the weapons became available.
Brigham stayed at base to train whilst J.T. Vodka, Layton and Rudyard were tasked with capturing an alien. The Commander only gave Rudyard one magazine of pistol rounds because it seemed like a good idea at the time.
They immediately forgot the ‘capture’ part and started shooting and killing everything. Then they started to encounter weird
and wonderfultypes of aliens that kicked their asses.The Commander had trouble adjusting to the time mechanics. It’s a real-time game, but you can pause at any time. It’s more confusing than you would think.
There was this Slimethrower that was kicking their asses, and a weird Balloon Fish that was moving towards my troops but not attacking. I determined that the Balloon Fish was not a threat.
It seemed the best idea to kill the Slimethrower was to throw a grenade. J.T. Vodka had the best throwing skill, so he had the honour. He wasn’t close enough to I moved him closer to the Slimethrower and the Balloon Fish.
J.T. Vodka threw the grenade, and it killed the Slimethrower. Then the Balloon Fish moved closer to him and instantly blew istself up. J.T. Vodka was killed. All enemies in the area were dead.
It was at this point that the Commander realised that Layton had been incapacitated by the Slimethrower, and this fact went unnoticed during J.T. Vodka attack.
Rudyard healed Layton, and they both appeared to be in tip-top shape. Rudyard then looted J.T. Vodka’s corpse. They moved onward, because they were yet to actually capture a live alien. They encountered about four enemies at once. They fought valiantly, but Layton and Rudyard died.
Back at base, Brigham was continuing with his training. He waited for his friends to come back with that live alien. Little did he know he was the last one left.
NEXT EPISODE: The Rebeginning.
Balloon first are the worst when you run around a corner and on is right there
Oh god that would suck so much if that were to happen.
Give it time little Phlanispo, give it time
@zapz hey mate, noticed you trying to log onto the Minecraft server and got your username from there… you are now whitelisted and goot to go!
hurrah! just had to spawn in the middle of the night with mobs all around 😛
Dammit @greenius!
Year walk is such a freaking beautiful game! but jesus christ it freaks the f**k out of me too… I didn’t realise the tales it delves into, but most of them i am pretty damn familiar with, growing up with them… i wasn’t aware of årsgang as a thing, but the rest is stuff i’m fully aware of 😛
Heh, arsgang.
http://cdn.memegenerator.net/instances/500x/51616497.jpg
If the game doesn’t take a year to finish demand a refund!
Deja vu!
Haha, I wanted to hear your opinion on it! I was a bit “wtf is going on” at the start but as soon as I read the encyclopaedia and familiarised myself with the lore, it made sense. But damn those cheap scares! :'(
I know right? but the artstyle and everything is beautiful!
Edit – and yeah we have very similar stories about The Huldra and The Mylings etc… All of these stories were basically made to scare children and stop them from doing things like walking off into the woods at night etc…
I finally got through my complete exercise program today. For those who are interested, there are 10 different sets of exercises which have to be completed in 50 minutes. I’m pretty happy about having done it.
TAY!
Went and saw How To Train Your Dragon 2!
Went in hyped, came out a mix of joy, tears, and PTSD.
I won’t post spoilers, but I will say, if you’re going to see it, when it hits, you’ll be cursing Dean DeBlois.
I curse Dean deBlois anyway
DAMN YOU DEAN, DAMN YOU!
(I don’t know who that is)I saw an advance screening of it with a few other people, was basically a whole cinema to ourselves and dammit I know the scene your talking about, well i think I know..
rot with me in the spoilers
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It’s almost like old TAY again. Though I’m still super curious how @benwhite did an image embed, mod powers?
Mod powers. Tadmod showed it off a few times back when he worked at Allure.
Yeah, mod powers. First time an image was posted in TAY was back in the days of yore, possibly the week we first hit 1000 comments, not sure though.
Yep
Have always been there, I remember it being used way back when I first ventured into TAY
There’s a secret way of doing it. I won’t spoil the surprise.
Yay! I’m glad. Images might be worth chasing up with @dannyallen 🙂
Definitely on the list!
So I waded, forum-warrior style, into the Gizmodo IP-blocking article again – as I usually do with my pet topic – but one of the commenters was asking what possible legal options could compete with Free. Piracy has a history of whupping legit copies’ ass on all the major purchasing factors: price, reliability, accessibility, quality.
So I suggested they could simply mimic Steam.
After all… torrents have the disadvantage of not staying up forever (or even existing) for old or obscure content, and relying on the number of seeders, whereas I can reliably download whatever niche game I want any time I want from Steam.
Then I started thinking about social features and sales, and in the midst of the horror and carnage that is the Steam Summer Sale, I realized that I really hope TV/movies DON’T create a Steam service.
CAN YOU IMAGINE IT?
*cue heat-wave transition effect*
Deep-discounted movies to add to your library, able to be queued up for download from your mobile Steam app, checking with friends to see what they have/haven’t watched, knowing what to avoid spoilers on, which seasons to gift, a big-picture mode to stream to your various devices, setting a wishlist, seeing shiny ads on the front page with exciting new shows/eps…
Steam TV? I’m so glad this thing does not exist. I would be broke. (Well. More broke.)
Complete season for $10
Over the top 80s action movies for a buck. Full series deals for the price of one season from JB.
Release time for currently running shows 10am so that it downloads and is ready to watch when you get home from work.
Paramount Publisher pack! 80 Action week!
Sign up to beta test the 3D-TV plugin. Launch special: 3D movie discounts!
Daily new releases tracker. Preview clips on the store page, community reviews, you have X friends who own this movie. Search by actor, director, producer. Weekly/daily specials categories.
Oh god. @powalen is right… Trading cards and badges! “Watched all Arnold Schwarznegger movies ever.” Collect an Arnie card for each movie, combine into a badge, get a cool user profile backdrop or T-800 red-eye emoticon.
Submit your own review. Rate this movie/show.
If anyone could pull off Steam for TV/movies, wallets would be in great peril.
Well Rize could be right and we might as well get our pay directed straight to valve and ask for an allowance.
They have already moved into software, tying it together and having video as another option. Just a button next to library called Video.
The full list of what they current have:
Games
Software
An operating system
Music player in overlay
It’s going to happen unless they can prove to themselves that it would somehow not be profitable.
They need to get the producers of the content on board. And that might not be something they want to give up. There is no chance that FOX or WB will just go, ok you sell this for us and we will let you. Not unless there is a major shakeup over that side of the industry.
I suppose it could work if you get some smaller companies all signing on and getting cut big cheques, but how likely is that to happen if steam doesn’t have much content to sell and it is small movies and old stuff. That said is somebody would chuck a whole heap of cartoons from the 80s and early 90s up there I would probably spend a stupid amount of money.
I wonder how many are not wrapped up in the big production companies and distributors. If they managed to sign somebody like New line cinema, the little fish in the big pond or big fish in the little pond how would that impact the industry. 500 odd title but say 300 English films. If they started making significant number of sales of Nightmare on Elm street, without the manufacturing costs that could be a tipping point.
I reckon talking to some of the French animation studios who did the best of the 90s cartoons would be a hyooooooooooge moneymaker.
Achievement Unlocked: WOLVERIIIIIINES!
TV Achievements!
Still doesn’t beat Microsoft achievements for doing their courses.
Valve’s big focus with SteamOS is taking over your lounge room. Before anyone else has something decent in place you can bet their solution will arrive.
So I was going to go to 8Bit today to get a burger, but I wasn’t feeling well enough for travel.
Each time I think I’m getting better, I start to feel a little worse
So if you think you’re getting worse, you’ll start to feel better? 😀
Reverse psychology doesn’t work on colds!
That’s the spirit!
It works on me!
No it doesn’t!
I haven’t seen this mentioned in any of the articles on Kotaku etc. yet, but apparently the Book Lady on the Hyrule Warriors cover art’s name is Lana and she’s an original character for the game.
I’m actually really interested in it. If I owned a Wii U I’d probably buy it. Not quite interested enough to buy a Wii U just to play it though.
I love the Warriors games, so I’m totally going to pick it up when I get a U.
I’ve never played a warriors game but, oh god do I want this.
I love both Zelda games and Warriors games so I am unreasonably hyped for it!
I’ll be shouting all about it from the rooftops once I finally own it whether you want me to or not, so, feel free to listen to the stuff that’s useful!
I’ve been raving about being able to play as Agitha from Twilight Princess all week on Twitter!
Midna is best character!
OMG yes! o/
\o
It seems like all the characters except Link are girls. I’m totally okay with this but it begs two very important questions:
– Epona as a playable character?
– Where the fuck is Tingle?
Grooooooooooooooooooose
I’m hoping they’ll also go for Zora dude, Goron dude and Deku dude. Maybe Fierce Deity too.
Princess Ruto is a shoe-in, surely!
Groose! Oh yeah!
I personally probably wouldn’t play with any of those characters but I’d imagine they’ll be there being ugly gross man-things.
Yeah, they’ve said a couple of times that over half the playable roster is female.
Also, Epona was already confirmed!
Please tell me that’s real.
I may need a Wii U this year after all.
I can say it’s a real Trollalen photoshop 😛
Why must you play these games with my heart, @powalen? 🙁
Oh god. Everyone is young and trendy and hip and I’m all old and a mess. D:
Are you kidding? Have you seen the 16-18 year olds. I’d rather hang out with the old and mess-like ones.
We have the best stories! Even if they’re bullshit they’re eloquent bullshit
Yeah, we suck.
Hello. Would you like to be in my club? You seem to have the qualifications.
Screw being young, you can’t yell at kids to get off your lawn if you’re young.
Hah, we used to make snide comments about mature age students.
Mostly G-wolf/wombat jumper, who would find an opportunity in EVERY lecture to ask off-topic tangential questions to try and demonstrate his intelligence and fail miserably.
What I’m saying is, don’t be G-wolf.
Ugh, we had the same kind of guy in our course, back in first year.
The scariest part was, despite how ridiculously old he looked, the guy turned out to be only a year older than me :/
YOU DON’T UNDERSTAND THE YOUNG PEOPLE!
I’ll bring you up to speed with being hip and trendy 🙂
Might need to get some wrinkle cream for the young bit though ;P
I think in order for you to become trendy you are expected to leave your brain at the door and fall into a haze of selfies and duck faces.
In that case do yourself a favour and read Alice in Wonderland again. As I recall Bertrand Russell made a comment at one point that “no one under the age of eighty should read it.” or some such thing. Enjoy age for the new perspective if nothing else 😉
Pullblox World on Wii U is awesome!
It’s got everything that made the original Pullblox on 3DS great but does stuff even betterer. There are lots of new mechanics and the puzzle sizes are much bigger too, which can really change up some of the puzzle designs (both visually and mechanically).
If you haven’t played either game, Pullblox (Pushmo in the US) is a cute little puzzle game made by Intelligent Systems (Fire Emblem developers!) that involves pushing AND pulling …BLOCKS! (wowies)
It’s only $13 on Wii U and you’ll save 30% off if you own either Pullblox or Fallblox on 3DS. BARGAIN! There’s a huge amount of puzzles included and there’s also a bunch of user-made pixel art puzzley goodness. You can browse for them through the game or instantly play ones saved to QR codes, easy peasy!
…too bad there’s only like me and @powalen who play it :'(
I played it!
Yay 😀
I wish they’d make a new Picross 3d for wii u! That game kicks ass!
Picross is mad fun! 😀
I’ve been getting the picrosses on 3DS
I don’t even play it!
Installing Onion Dino SHOOTY BANG BANG…I believe that will get the message across
Installing as well!
o/
That we should totally play some more tonight? because that probably needs to happen!
i should be able to make it around 9:30 – 10’ish
I should be good for that time \o/
Ar nosuge confirmed for EU (but strangely not US yet!?). 26th of September. Digital and Physical for PS3 only at this stage (the Vita port & Vita remake of prequel game Ciel nosurge were only announced in Japan on Monday). JP and ‘EU’ – presumably that means English – voices.
I am so amazingly hyped for this. Despite having a craptastic localization, Ar Tonelico II was one of my absolute favourite games on the PS2. Ar Tonelico III was a pretty poor follow-up with an average plot and a terrible combat system (but an amazing soundtrack). Apparently Ar nosurge brings back the AT2 combat and has a vastly better plot and everything. EXCITEMENT.
I will be taking a break from Destiny to play this for sure.
Flights: booked \o/
Came in under budget too 😀
Now all I need to do is figure out my itinerary so I can find out where, and when, to stay 🙂
Is it alright @freezespreston if I stay at yours on the 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th, cause I’m flying straight to the Gold Coast, but there was no flights available for the 4th or 5th, so I get in on the 3rd instead :S
I plan on staying at least Monday – Friday nights in Brisbane, but then am unsure of the following weekend just yet, but I’ll plan something! 😀
Pretty keen!!! 😀
Lots to do on coast too. You got the theme parks and Surfer’s Paradise and all that.
And all those scary clubs. D:
Yeah, Surfers! Lets go to Club Liv and score some drugs! Since that’s all the clubs in Surfers are good for 😛
It was easiest to go straight to the Gold Coast since I wanna go to Freezes bash 🙂
I figured I may as well take the time to explore while I’m there, so could make a weekend of it 🙂
I’m pretty easily occupied, haha! 😀
I could spend a whole day in a shopping centre and be happy! ;D
I am cold right now. Trying to think of warm Queensland sunshine.
Yes.
Yay! 😀
I’ll be the best house guest you could ever ask for!
I’ll cook, and I’ll clean, and I’ll basically be your very own Cinderella!
Thank you so much 🙂
Freeze is a man of few words
UFO Aftermath – Firing Wildly For Freedom
Episode 2: The Rebeginning
Brigham gasped. His friends were dead? How could they be? Brigham wiped the tears from his eyes. He knew what to do.
“The new recruits have arrived, Brighsy.” called out the chairman.
“Let them in.” said Brigham.
They walked in one by one. An Asian man with good Medical stats. He shall be named Santiago, because why not? Brigham gave Santiago dual pistols, because medicine.
A woman with good Perception stats walked in after. She was named Glorianna, and given an assault rifle because that’s what scouts use I think.
An old guy hobbled in. He was named Cygnet, and became as soldier.
Lastly, Waylon stumbled in. He wasn’t very good at anything. Waylon sucks.
Stronger than it ever was, Phoenix Company set off to conquer a military base. Santiago soon learned that dual pistols are not very good for medical practices, and started carrying around a medkit.
Soon all aliens outside the base were killed. All Phoenix Company had to do was enter the base.
Just… enter the base. How hard is it to enter the base. Brigham suspected some transgenant curse had afflicted the area, and that the mission may have to be aborted.
Brigham tried many things, such as getting everyone to leave the base and the try and enter again. Brigham tried a second time. It didn’t work. And then he saw the button with the nondescript icon that said ‘enter base’ in hovertext.
Phoenix Company finally entered the base. His mission was to kill several transgenants inside the massive base. So… where were they?
Phoenix Company set about the arduous task of scouring the entire base for enemies. What began as a slow, careful, crawl quickly devolved into recklessly going everywhere.
Finally, they found and killed the wretched creatures. It only took 10 minutes of nothing to get to them. No biggie.
Phoenix Company celebrated it’s first battle together when they returned to base. They had almost been defeated, but they were stronger than ever. Like a… phoenix?
Brigham submitted his report. The chairman asked him to sit down.
“So Brighsy, how’s the new team?”
“Pretty good, chairman. Santiago’s a good medic, Glorianna’s a good scout. Cygnet is… uh… a guy. Waylon sucks.”
“Eh, have faith in the boy. He’ll learn.”
“Very well, sir.”
Later that day, Brigham looked over his supplies. Could he turn Waylon into a good soldier?
The Council of Earth did some science, and submitted science-approved stratagems to Phoenix Company. Brigham couldn’t be bothered reading them, so he gave them to Waylon.
The most interesting thing that the scientists mentioned was the idea of raiding Area 51. Seemed like a good idea to Brigham.
Brigham cried one last tear for his fallen comrades, and looked to the future.
HELLO TAY I MISSED YOU SO MUCH
You were gone? 😛
Gooky!
\o/
HOW WAS WORK?!
I STARTED TO CRASH AT 2PM 🙁
I was also getting cold by then so I had my hood up for warmth and that managed to hide the droopy eyes from my friend. Also, they shouted me lunch so that was nice. Apart from the bit where I’d brought in my own lunch, but I left that in the fridge so it’s there for tomorrow now.
I spent the whole day filling out forms, then playing brain training games.
I am a collector of W101 Consolation prizes :'(
git gud
Oh, first day of work!?
Whereabouts is your work? I could use a train buddy again ;D
Oh, look who pretends to care now that there’s a potential train buddy in it for him!
😛 (did you even start work @mrtaco? ;D)
It’s at the ABC, so that’s pretty great for me. Same train trip as I’ve been doing since the start of 2012, but I’ve slowly been cutting the distance down Harris Street 😛
Are you serious? That’s literally around the corner from me!
Train buddies maybe! 😀
EDIT: Whether you like it or not >:|
Shit.No I was totally joking I’m actually in uh… Epping. Yeah.We missed you too!
Aim better next time!
I thought I had you this time /o\
You’re lucky that hundred shot of NOS didn’t blow the welds on the intake!
You almost had me? You never had me – you never had your car… Granny shiftin’ not double clutchin’ like you should.
Now me and the mad scientist gotta rip apart the block and replace the piston rings you fried.
I said a ten-*second* car, not a ten-*minute* car.
Man I love that movie. I need to re-watch it at some point soon..
I Streetpassed you today!
I forgot I even put it in my bag!
Hey guys. Did you know there’s 1000ml in a litre and 100cm in a metre?
Some people in the class seemed surprised by this fact.
Going through the course details they’ve given us and to gifts class I suddenly don’t think I’m going to have too many problems with it.
Hell, some of the kids there outright admitted to only doing it because their friend was and another bunch were complaining about 2 hours without a break being far too much to handle.
Gifts Class sounds fun! 😀
Yup, sounds like first year.
Aren’t you glad that you’re not young and hip now?
It’s even better than that. By definition at standard atmospheric pressure and sea level on Earth, a 1 cubic meter (1m x 1m x 1m cube) of pure water is 1000L. Additionally while this is not 100% accurate since the SI definitions of the meter and gram have changed, 1L of pure water at the melting temperature of ice weighs roughly 1Kg.
EDIT: More usefully, this means 1 cubic centimeter is 1 mL which is why you will sometimes hear people talking about ‘C.C.s’ in medicine, especially medical dramas set in the US where they use crazy imperial volumes for stuff and getting into that sort of volume you’re talking about quarter teaspoons or something.
This is why the SI units are so powerful – they’re all intended to be interconnected in a similar way.
Did you know there are a million cubic centimetres in a cubic metre? True story!
Did you know that the kilogramme is the only SI unit that’s not derivable but is keyed to a physical object?
Also, stop thinking in centimetres. Useless form of measurement. Use metres or millimetres instead.
THE METRIC SYSTEM IS THE TOOL OF THE DEVIL! MY CAR GETS 40 RODS TO THE HOGSHEAD AND THAT’S THE WAY I LIKES IT!
Centimetres are fine for everyday sized objects. Measurement is full of historical anomalies that don’t make sense, but persist – like feet and inches for height, or acres of land. As long as you’ve chosen a measurement tool that is appropriate for the job, and the error in your measurement is an acceptable amount, then it’s ok (There’s a reason wiggly babies and children are measured in centimentres!)
Sure, but if you’re studying a science it’s too easy to conflate it in your head with other units. Less of an issue with other units as humans understand grams and litres at a human scale a bit better.
I suddenly feel a lot better about the obvious facts I don’t know.
Anyone want to video call me so I’m not so desperately and pathetically alone eating at this restaurant? I could have grabbed fast food but noooo. I had to eat decently. All by myself…..
On a related note, Wagamama is pretty darn good and being able to drink a beer with dinner is fantastic.
People could text you and make you feel popular?
No one is even in twitter.
I burned my lip on a duck gyoza too.
Blaghs totally did \o/
Great hanging with you today, buddy.
Apologies again for that movie. Worse than I expected. And I was expecting some pretty terrible things.
Hahaha, was probably the worst movie I ever saw but I had fun regardless. XD
I’ll think of you when I look at the night sky full of stars. (Holy fuck, that writing was terrible. :P)
“I don’t like sand. It’s coarse and rough and irritating, and it gets everywhere. Not like here. Here everything’s soft… and smooth.”
Nothing will ever beat Episode II for WTF-inducing ‘romantic’ dialogue.
No. Trust me. Transformers 4 has way worse in spades.
I… really? I didn’t think that was even possible. But given the track record of that wonderful franchise, I guess it’s not that surprising.
Are we talking “attach your thick hard cable to my universal interface port” level worse? Where it could actually be amusing if your childhood growing up with those characters weren’t being violated in a back alley by Michael Bay?
Most of the dramatic scenes were followed by audience laughter. It was not intentional comedy.
No. Just straight up bad. Marky Mark has a NOOOO that rivals Vader’s in Ep III. It’s actually the point I turned to @dc and apologised for suggesting the movie as a possibility.
What movie you guys go and see?
Transformers: Age of Extinction
I didn’t think it was out till tomorrow.
VALIANT HEEEEEARTS! Thanks again, buddy!
@dc I actually meant Transformers, but no worries man, hope you enjoy it.
Was working late tonight, but next time you’re in the city, think about Harajuku Gyoza or Wagaya for decent-value Asian food you can have beer with. 🙂 (Wagaya even has the privacy of a booth of your own!)
@redartifice @blaghman @quiz_b @tech_knight FYI just ordered all the Edge of the Empire materials to peruse and decide what we want to do. I’m thinking maybe we’ll start with a very simple introductory adventure and then either go to one of the two larger campaigns they’ve pre-made, or I’ll roll my own. I’m fairly confident in saying I know Star Wars well enough to be able to put together something half decent in the latter case.
Since @redartifice was interested in details:
There’s an introductory adventure in the Core Rulebook which might be a nice starting point if we wanted to try it first. It takes place after the destruction of the first Death Star, as the group arrives in Formos, a small port that is on the convergence of two major hyperspace trade routes, one that goes through Hutt space and the other which goes through toward the outer rim. It’s also at one end of a very narrow, dangerous route known as the Kessel Run. As you’d imagine, it’s a favourite haunt of smugglers, gamblers, spice addicts and other scum and villany.
If we wanted to do one of the longer-form published adventures or use one as a basis, there’s currently two published. The first, Beyond the Rim, is a more exploration-heavy campaign where you start out on a space station in the mid rim and travel into uncharted worlds beyond the outer rim in Wild Space, uncovering secrets from the Clone Wars. The other is the Jewel of Yavin, which involves the group gathering, planning and executing a daring Oceans-11 style heist of a priceless jewel being exhibited in Cloud City on Bespin. It’s more focused toward scoundrels and thieves with a lot of social interaction and stuff, and a much more limited scope.
If any of these sound really interesting to you guys let me know, otherwise I’ll make an executive decision once I’ve had a chance to get the materials in hand and really read through them.
Curiosity. What time period is the Star Wars RPG set at?
Suggestion. If it’s around the same time of the Bioware RPG’s someone should roll an amazing HK unit. Meatbags seem to just absorb much more bullets.
Original Trilogy but it would be easy enough to adapt it to Prequels and probably to VII-IX once we have more details there, though the tricky bit with that is that they threw away the expanded universe canon so it’d be quite easy to start a campaign only to find it’s miles apart from the films.
The Old Republic setting from KotOR is workable in some ways, but that area of the timeline isn’t massively well fleshed-out beyond the games I think. There’s some Tales of the Jedi comics and books which lay out some even earlier stories, but a lot of that has the strong lingering odor of Kevin J Anderson on it because he wrote quite a bit of it. On the other hand some of it is 100% canon now as places from it like Onderon are in the Clone Wars stuff. Also it’s so far removed from the main timeline that Lucasarts don’t really need to kill it the way they had to kill the movie timeline EU.
There are Assassin droids in the modern film timeline though. The IG-model droids are canon, at least insofar as one of them (IG-88) appears in The Empire Strikes Back, as one of the Bounty Hunters that Vader hires to track down the Millennium Falcon (the others being Boba Fett, Bossk, Zuckuss, 4-LOM and Dengar). So I could totally see someone building an IG droid or something that had a similar style to HK-47. Maybe someone cobbled him together out of parts from centuries-old scrap and happened to put the personality core of an HK droid in there. Who knows. Anything is workable really.
EDIT: I should also mention, if anyone else in TAY is interested, it’s not limited to just the four who have shown interest so far. Very early planning stages at this point since I don’t even have any of the sourcebooks yet and need to do a fair bit of fiddling on Roll20 to see if this is going to work at all. You are not too late to express interest.
Excitement. That would be really amazing.
Demand. Someone must make a character with a HK-personality unit.
I think you know I’m going to be plotting one already 😛
I might be interesting in joining. Keep me in the loop if you can.
4LOM was pretty snarky too
Ooh, a heist could be cool.
@redartifice agreed about the heist. So…considering I may or may not have lost all my die (hint: I have) what will I need to get up and running for this?
If we’re running on Roll20 you won’t need dice
Yep, you’d need a Roll20 account, a Google+ account to use for a Google Hangout (Roll20’s built-in chat functionality is a bit shit) and possibly some other stuff. Still very much at the planning stage.
I love playing basketball. I’m really competitive when it comes to sport, but I haven’t found one I’m good at. However, with the team I play for, it doesn’t matter too much. We’re a social team, ironically known as the Winners. I don’t know how many games I’ve played now, but I feel like I’m improving with every game I play. My passing is getting a lot better, and I’m getting a few assists every game now. I’m also starting to get some points, which feels good. The most important thing though is that I’m getting fitter every week. I haven’t lost as much weight as I’d like, but I’m able to run up and down the court a lot more. We’re also playing two games on Wednesdays now, and I’m able to play at least half of each game.
TL:DR I love playing basketball.
Something like basketball with a consistent time and level of exertion makes a really good benchmark for measuring improvement, when you suddenly realise you can do 3 times as much as when you started, it’s a hell of a good feeling
Well AJ Maddah has pulled out of being part of Big Day Out and sold his stake to a US company and apparently that spells big troubles for the festival to the point it may not exist at all next year.. I guess all good things must come to an end eventually :/
OR…and hear me out on this…they bring in more acts, throw more money at it and we might not get alot of bands pulling out due to “reasons”
I think first they need to address the fact they’re in debt by millions 😛 also apparently the owner of the venue for big day out Sydney was told to pull their booking for the dates they had booked if true then damn..
Who knows though.
Oh and apparently Big Day Out is now owned 100% by a US company AJ reportedly sold his stake to them who already owned stakes on the festival. So that’s also interesting.
American style festivals? Big Day Out now hosted at Bondi! Headlined by Nickelback
Naw, maybe we’ll see Lollopolooza come to Australia…
Guys, I’m sorry…
As much as I wanted to enjoy playing Orion: Dino Horde… I don’t think I’ll ever be installing it again.
It’s just a poorly made, unenjoyable game.
I didn’t find it too bad. The 2 games I played were fun enough and it was still enjoyable (to an extent) 😛
Definitely won’t be playing it again though 😀
I dunno I had fun with it tonight, for a first try it wasnt bad. And im excited for the second level simply because it has friggen jet bikes! JET BIKES!
I didn’t get any of the cool vehicles when I played :'(. When I did get into a standard car @cakesmith tried driving off a cliff and @rize got us stuck in a tree. THE WORST!
I was on foot majority of the time because we kept getting our vehicles blown up by rock throwing T-rex’s
Those pesky pesky rock-throwing T-Rex’s!
And the acid spitters, I found a good combo with shotgun rolling but as soon as anything big comes at ya it was screwed
Considering I have 5 hours on it now, I guess I’ll have to disagree 😛
Or as last night went, you just rockets hopped yourself off te dang planet
@blaghman @novacascade @mythamphetamine @mawt @redartifice @tech_knight
Here’s the link to the Numenera character options if anyone wanted a few more ideas for stuff to grab when you advance in Tier.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BxPSUhvGbW9hSW5Ydlc4aDgyYUk/edit?usp=sharing
TALES OF THE NINTH WORLD
THe party made their way up the tower, encountering Viral creatures and an infected Ergovore hound, who tried to have the party’s Numenera devices for lunch- as well as @mythamphetamine! The party then made their way to the third floor, where they met an unhelathy looking man who said
“HELP ME”
Tune in on the 9th of July for more TALES FROM THE NINTH WORLD
Thanks for playing @tech_knight @mawt @popdart5 @blaghman @mythamphetamine! Next time @novacascade!
Thinking about getting some comics/graphic models
Any recommendations?
SAGA regardless.
What sort are you looking at? Superheroes? Others?
Anything really, just wanna get into reading em haha. Ive got the two Walking Dead compendiums so just looking for something new to read
OK
Good starts: Saga, Batman: Year One-Long Halloween, Joss Whedon’s run on Astonishing X-Men, Sandman:Preludes and Nocturnes, Matt Fraction’s current run on Hawkeye. All very approachable, tonally different.
Will check them out thanks red 😀
I also second @strange below and am kicking myself for not including Locke and Key.
Also The Lesser Evil, but I figured EVERYONE here had that.
I’d love to get The Walking Dead graphic novels, reckon I’m gonna pick up all of them on my next trip to Adelaide. Really want to get a ccopy of The Killing Joke too.
They are actually really good, much better than the tv series
The Lesser Evil! The Game! Peaceful Tomorrows! 😛
And Locke And Key. Definitely Locke And Key. I’ve only read the first one but I think I’m getting for the next one for my birthday.
So how much did @shane pay you?
Hah, shane doesn’t have money to pay strange, he has new babby costs!
These.
-Ultimate Spider-Man
-Maus
-Batman: No Man’s Land
Was talking to my boss (the owner) on the phone today at work, he’d just got back from a month long overseas trip. During the conversation he tells me that he’s going to pay me double this week to show his appreciation for me doing such a good job and holding things together while he was away, man it feels good to be appreciated.
Now all I have to do is stay away from steam….. yeah, like that’s gonna happen. Gifts for everybody!!!! \o/
Well that’s just in time for the sale roundup where EVERYTHING IS ON SALE… AGAIN! 😛
FIRE SALE on the steam SUMMER SALE!
You really are insane…
Has anyone picked up Valiant Hearts yet?
I recall people being pumped for it, and it looks amazing, yet I haven’t seen anyone mention anything about it yet (it released yesterday apparently).
Well if anyone gets it, let me know what it’s like 🙂
It looks like another game I’ll have to get around to playing eventually 😀
It still hasn’t unlocked on Steam yet. I think it unlocks in just under 4 hours.
Oh, I saw there was a review over at IGN, so had a look around and saw the release date (at least for PSN) was the 24th :S
Oh well! It looks like a great game 🙂
I love the hand drawn look it has to it :’)
:O I thought that was a while away yet, whoo. I’ve even got enough in my psn wallet. Dammit now I’m just want to go home and play it.
Yeah, I still thought it was a couple of months off too :S
I still have a backlog of games to get through thoigh, so I won’t play it for at least a month anyway :'(
I also keep forgetting that Australia is always ahead of the rest of the world. Its always a dampener when you realise you have to wait another day because of silly Americans and their slowness.
Downloading now, LiDri!
jelly,
I really hope they don’t kill that dog, I’ll cry :'(
You just know they will. :'(
If they do, I hope it’s right at the end and they have a post-credits sequence showing he ends up as the “beef” on a spit in a kebab shop
I’d like to know what you think when you’re done. I’m interested but fully immersed in Fallout: NV at the moment so I haven’t bought it yet.
Yay!
I want to hear a review 😀
Mainly about the graphics :3
So long as it’s as beautiful to play as it looks in videos, I’m sold 😀
Definitely looks amazing. 😀
It will be a beautiful game. It’s on the UbiArt engine, same thing powering the recent Rayman games and Child of Light.
Whether it’s actually a good game is another question entirely. It’s getting pretty positive reviews though.
Terminator 2.
What else needs to be said? One of the best movies ever made.
But the ending… shit. I shed a single tear. Just the one.
I know now why you cry!
It’s the only film I’ve ever cried in, too.
So I delved into the whole trading cards and steam marketplace stuff yesterday, now I understand how it works.
Dumped a whole lot of random crap on the market that I’ll never use (like TF2 items), bought a bunch of cards to finish badges, and I think I’m 4 or 5 bucks up on what my balance was before I started. Interesting little system.
No idea where I got this nasty bug from, but I feel rotten today :\ Can hardly talk today, and head feels all poundy and throbby. Damn you nasty germs!
I think you get germs from making Dad Jokes. 😛
Seriously though, that doesn’t sound good. Hope you feel better soon. I’d hugasaurus you but, you know, germs. I don’t want to start making Dad Jokes, too!
lol Surely my jokes can’t be the cause! I’ve posted many a dad joke here before and never come down with anything like this! I’ll be sorely disappointed if I find out that is the cause! Giving up dad jokes would be like kicking a crack habit! I just don’t know if I’ve got the will power!
No good. 🙁 Hope you feel better man.
I actually got a sniffle today, too. I blame new and unusual public transport exposure. See, on the weekend I went out to Sizzler but the inner city train lines were down so they were using chartered buses. You know, the ones with the seatbelts so you don’t die? Which is awesome.
And y’know, I was kind of having trouble with mine, but then it clicked.
(@strange is wrong, the answer is MORE dad jokes!)
bwahahahahahah nice 1 sire! 😉 Hope your sniffles don’t get any worse!
Due to the generosity of a polycount bud of mine, I now have multiples of several steam sale cards! I’m only missing card 3 and 5 myself!
I have the following to offer in trade!
1x Card 1
3x Card 8
1x Card 10
Anyone interested?
I can give you card 3. Missing 8 or 1 but I’ve already crafted the badge so doesn’t really matter.
Phat! Happy to trade 8 for 3 if you’re keen?! Do I have you on steam yet? if not, add me! Nick is just welbot as usual
I do have you on steam already! Trade offer sent!
I can give you 5. Send me a trade offer and I’ll pop it through tonight.
Any particular card you want in return?
Noticed you don’t have 10, so I sent an offer for that. If you decide you want another, just let me know!
All good. I’ve made the badge so I’m not too fussy. Sorry I won’t get to it until tonight, trading is blocked on my mobile.
Cheers man!
Gonna be pretty busy today, but I’ll check which ones I’ve got and which ones I need when I can.
Hope you feel better soon too.
Cool cool! I’m not going anywhere today (except maybe the chemist). Once I’ve crafted my badge, I’ll likely just give the rest away to those who want them!
Thanks for the well wishes too! Hoping it’s not gonna stick around too long!
I wouldn’t mind an 8 if still one spare
done and done. no 8’s left!
/edit I still have a card 1 left.
ooooo Good sales on today! Banner Saga, Bioshock Infinite and Child of Light! For those of you missing any of these games you must definitely grab them!
Already got Bioshock, and I’ve bought Child Of Light 3 times already (on Xbone, 360, and PS3/PS4), yet I’ve only played about an hour. So it’s probably a good thing that I have no money for the sale till tomorrow.
But you have friends! tell me what you want!! =D
Not Sleeping Dogs!
😛
Nuffin’ 🙂 Your friendship is enough.
Yew, been waiting for Banner Saga since these sales started. Think I’d rather play Child of Light on the PS4 with a big screen.
Back at work after taking yesterday off sick. Sorry for those that had to put up with my extra-nasally voice last night.
In other news, new Western Fronts DLC/expansion for CoH 2 is heaps of fun and slightly unbalanced but still great. Why yes, I will ram multiple T-34s into that Jagdtiger. Clog its tracks with your bodies men! \o/
Also Eternal Crusade founders’ packs should be available for purchase today. I’m going to snap one up as soon as I can. 😀
So I read on the previous page about the Star Wars RPG, droid characters with HK personalities are possible? I should spend tonight working on my HK-47-style of language. Maybe play through KOTOR again because I absolutely love chatting with HK-47.
“Amused response: How else will I be able to pay for my spare parts? Kill the meatbags and just take them? Actually that idea sounds much more entertaining!”
I have a soft spot in my heart for HK-47!
No GO-TO droids?
G0-T0 can go probe himself.
G0-T0 finds your thought process illogical and recommends you correct it. Otherwise he will correct the galactic record and remove your presence from the galaxy.
This too, doubt I’d last long in the party with that attitude software installed 😛
*casts Destroy Droid*
That model never seemed good at squeezing through stuff :P.
GM: The corridor narrows quite sharply in the tunnel
Me: Well shit… guess I’ll wait out here
Just the personality core I think is fine. You might not be as capable as a HK droid without upgrades though.
EDIT: The same goes if you wanted to be a G0-T0-style droid or an Astromech or anything else. I think we can make it work if you want to play something like that.
I’d prefer to only have one droid in the group though for balance sake.
Upgrading is more than half of the fun of being a droid, so very doable for me! 🙂 What models would I have to choose from as a starter?
I’m afraid I can’t answer that just yet, got to wait for the sourcebooks to arrive.
All good I can wait, if there is any possibility of being a droid in this you’ll know I’ll jump at it 🙂
Oh you can definitely be a droid, that’s not an issue.
Are they not available by [REDACT]ing them?
I looked at doing that (since I’ve bought copies anyway, just got to wait for book suppository to ship them) and couldn’t find them with a cursory search.
http://www.news.com.au/entertainment/tv/survivor-contestant-caleb-bankston-killed-after-being-crushed-between-two-rail-cars/story-e6frfmyi-1226967210567
Aww man 🙁
@sughly @powalen @phoenix @strange
🙁
🙁 Horrible news.
Oh my gosh! That’s horrible. Aww man… he was such a great guy.
I forget, he was the nice one wasn’t he? And it was the other one that was the annoying one?
Yeah, everyone seemed to like him. His boyfriend (Colton – who was previously on One World) was the one who was a racist bigot.
Sad though 🙁
Man flu has hit I can feel it spreading through my sinuses and into my throat tell my family my..hello
Anyone got a card 9, 2 or 3? will trade for a 5, 7 or 8.
Figure I’m close enough that I may as well craft this badge
hehe that’s what I figured too. Last sale I ended up getting 4 of the same card, so I didn’t bother trying, but this time I had better luck. Only missing card 5 now, but that’s just pending @beavwa’s acceptance of the trade tonight! w00t!
I’ve got an extra 9. Send me a trade for nothing from your side – all yours.
Thanks man, I’ll send it through when I get home
I sent a trade offer last night. Not sure if I get a notification once it goes through, but, enjoy!
Got it, thanks!
People without badges should totally say something on Friday, when my trading access opens back up I’m going to go frickin’ nuts.
What happened to your access?
Well you see not long ago Transient and his best girl were on a tour at Valve. Well long story short. after chatting with the devs and a couple of vodka shots they ended up play testing the latest DOTA 2 patch.
Apparently Gabe doesn’t like it when you beat him so conclusively
Hmph. Sore loser. But I just gave him the idea for SteamTV, so I should be getting unrestricted tomorrow.
…Should’ve asked for royalties.
3 4 5?
Edit: Swap a Three for a Five?
Yep! Will send it once I get home
I’ve crafted 5 badges already 😀
Really enjoying Valiant Hearts! Thanks again, @evilmonkey!
ALSO @GREENIUS JUST GIFTED ME TRANSISTOR! D:
I feel like such a mooching monster. THANKS GUYS.
Dammit, that was the last thing on your wishlist, too. Put more shit on there!
Yeah, those are exactly my sentimonies.
He added something that can’t be gifted!
*shakes fist*
>:D
That’s just enabling generous behavior though! >:|
😀
Do we have to go through the whole stealing your shoes bit again?
It also covers you in the event that Steam decides to give you games. You can’t get free stuff from Valve if you aren’t telling them what you want!
That’s true, but to be completely honest people have gifted me so much stuff this sale and I’ve bought a lot of stuff with the credit I had in my account too. (With stuff left over that I can spend as cool stuff comes up.) I feel content with what I got and don’t need any more. I appreciate all the kindness too. You guys. :’)
None of us NEED any more games, but we sure as hell WANT them all.
Personally, there is next to nothing on Steam that I’d want to be given by Valve. If it’s on there and I’m interested I’ve probably purchased it already.
Witcher 3?
HOLY CRAP WHY IS THAT NOT ON MY WISHLIST?
Fuck no. Why would I want that on Steam? GoG all the way for Witcher games.
But what if it was given to you by free from Valve?
@greenius: Then i would hope it would be delivered to my inventory instead of added to my library so can gift it to someone else.
Mooching war widows.
*shakes fist*
He totally ended up mooching 50c off me yesterday.
To be fair, you made me sit through Transformers 4. That’s three hours of my life I’ll never get back. 😛
Blame the cinemas for not showing Edge of Tomorrow at an appropriate time.
Yeah, you owe him more than 50c for that
@evilmonkey KMart fucked me over. Their website said that they’d be selling the Wii-U bundles from 8am, but when I got there they said they’d been selling them since midnight and they were all gone. Bastards.
Sorry, man.
Awwww, sorry to hear that, Shane. 🙁
That’s alright, I can see if my local has any stock if you want, if they do I’ll pick one up for you. Don’t know how much shipping would be though.
Considering my recent behaviour I think I better clarify that it wouldn’t be a gift.
Thanks, man. I won’t get my hopes up, but I’m happy to reimburse you any and all costs.
No worries man, I’ll let yout know if I can get my hands on one.
What was the Kmart deal?
https://www.ozbargain.com.au/search/node/wii+u?s=t
Seems like Target has a similar (I think?) one. Apparently eBay are having 20% off certain retailers this Sunday so there may be some good deals coming up!
WE NEED MORE PULLBLOXERS
More PalBlox! 😀
Sold out at Target too. But thanks. http://www.target.com.au/p/nintendo-wii-u-8gb-console-skylanders-swap-force-pack/P55538732
That means it’s in-store only. Might be worth calling?
Good luck on the Wii U hunt, S-DOG!
With a three-day-old at home, it was hard enough getting out this morning. I think the hunt is over, man. Thanks anyway.
Haha oops! I forgot that part 😛
Prices will only go lower so come Christmas there may be better deals 😀
Yeah, but it means I miss out on Mario Kart free game + multiplayer shenanigans with TAY people. The shine’s kind of gone out of the idea now.
If I can get one for you, do you want me to get you a copy of Mario Kart too?
@evilmonkey, if you see a $56 copy (as per BigW sale). then yes please!
What is it and why do we I need it Green
A cheap and amazing puzzle game on Wii U!
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2014/06/talk-amongst-yourselves-282/comment-page-9/#comment-2778641
KMart? Midnight? Who wants to place bets on the consoles got sold to employees?
And showed up on ebay at $20 below standard RRP at 1am…
Is Zero Dark Thirty worth watching?
What about Death at a Funeral (2007) (which I’ve never heard of before but seems to have been reviewed well)
http://www.telstra.com.au/latest_offers/loyalty/movies.html?detectmob=no
EDIT: Picked Death at a Funeral – thanks dudes!
Zero Dark Thirty is supposed to be excellent!
The latter? Yes.
It can be wonderfully black at times.
I hope you mean the British version. If you’re talking about the American version, that’s a little racist.
There’s… an American version?
And Dinklage is in both.
Yeah, unfortunately it turns into a black stereotype film for some reason.
Yes. They thought that a black comedy should have black actors instead of being funny.
Zero Dark Thirty is definitely worth watching, although it’s an interesting film in regards to its position on torture.
Can’t say Zero Dark Thirty interests me, got both versions of Death At A Funeral though, it’s been a long time since I watched them, but from memory they were both pretty damn funny.
Yes. Zero Dark Thirty is very much worth watching IF you’re interested in a Hollywood directors take on how Osama Bin Laden was captured/executed.
What impressed me was it wasn’t especially “Hollywood”- it was pretty realistic.
Yeah that’s what surprised me actually. I wish The Hurt Locker was more like that, instead it went for the whole cinematic look that didn’t look real.
Thank you so much @pupp3tmast3r for Banner Saga. You’re awesome mang.
I’m usually good at playing one game at a time. For the first time in a long while I actually have a pile of shame. D: You guys? Bad influences!
Gunman Clive doesn’t take long to beat! ;D
Except for Duck Mode, that is.
What the Duck?
I’ve actually been really good this steam sale =D Only have 3 games so far ^^ However I think that translates into me having spent too much outside the sale >.
Have we laughed at Steve_O (forgot his tag) for being old today yet with the happy birfdaes and what not?
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, OLD MAN STEEEEEVE!
Happy birthday Steve-Old! @steve-o_the_deve-o
Yeah, Happy Birthday @steve-o_the_deve-o.
All the notifactaions \o/
Hey @steve-o_the_deve-o!
Happy Birthday! I’ll drink a vial of ink in your honour!
Happy birthday @steve-o_the_deve-o
Hey @steve-o_the_deve-o
@steve-o_the_deve-o
Happy Birthday!
@steve-o_the_deve-o
Happy birthday ya’ jackass!
wait…
Yeah that guy’s a dick…
Who should have a good birthday
Valiant Hearts what’s the verdict? I hopefully *fingers crossed* get money this weekend and want to know if it’s worth the asking price.
I’ll also hopefully pick up minecraft as well if the cash gods allow it
Pretty sure @dc is really enjoying it.
Put it at the top of your wishlist, if your team wins, you might get it for free.
Edit: I’d probably wait till the last day of the sale though, just in case it goes on sale, it’s highly unlikely considering it just came out today, but you never know.
Yeah I’ll do that tonight, steam mobile hates me adding things to wish list so won’t let me haha
Reminder
5th July is the Frozen Meat @dc Experience Redux 5.0 feat. @beeawwb With Special Guest @liondrive As Performed by @SerNobulus With The @strange Directorial Style Of @Sughly And Written by @dkzeitgeist But Without @jimu Because Fuck That Guy (ILY) And Secret Mystery Guest (Hint: It’s @Popdart5) Brought To You By The Number 5463586588 and The Coalition Of @welbot And @virus__ And Narrated by @transientmind.
Narrated by Transientmind?! *swooooooooooon*
Extra features on the Bluray include “Story time with @transientmind”. Our narrator shares his amazing personal tales that reflect very valuable lessons that made him into the bloody awesome human he is today!
“4.5/5 stars a cunning plot delivered in style” – That guy who watches from the bushes
So many people!
I’ll have to start planning my outfit! :O
…
Jokes, I already got that planned ;D
Is it something like Party Boy from Jackass cause that could be humorous 😛
I’ve whittled down my outfit too. It’ll be one of the two shirts I own. 😛
So we need to get you a minimum of 4 shirts, and at least one fancy shirt 😉
This list of thing to get is turning out well! 😀
NOOOOOOOO!
I choose to interpret this as a reluctant yes.
Don’t worry, the minimum is 4, but the maximum is only 16 shirts, so nothing crazy or anything 🙂
D:
!!!
That was a joke 😛
I’d rather just walk around and hangout, and when I see a sale, or something pretty, I’ll go have a look and determine if it’ll look good on you, then go from there 😉
@liondrive
:O
Why is that a “:O” face, haha!
Don’t you want to hangout with me?
I’m hurt DC :'(
Haha! Who wouldn’t want to hang with Stewie?
You, apparently! :’O
*runs off crying hysterically*
😛
Whittling is an apt verb due to the lumber jack appearance of said shirts.
You should write up all the meat credits!
Best Meat reminder ever. Will read again.
FREE STEAM GAMES:
Little Inferno
Mirror’s Edge
The Whispered World
TAKE THEM
You buy a bunch of gifts to give away? Only one that would interest me is Monaco I reckon, heard good things
Looked through my previous Humble Bundle purchases and had a bunch of spare keys. Monaco is all yours! I’ll DM it through Twitter
I would like Titan Quest please!!!!
Do you have Twitter? For now I’ll just send an offline message on Steam (Reaper, right?) but if it disappears before you get it, just send me another message on Steam when we’re both online :D.
Will do! I shall alert you to my presence via steam!
Someone should take Titan Quest. It’s completely rad and completely underrated.
Seconding this. I totally have to get around to finishing my complete pack. It’s on my list of ‘things I want to finish’.
Could I please have Papo & Yo?
Enjoy!
I did >:-(
I have Mirror’s Edge on Xbox but would be interested in replaying on PC. BUT, I’ve already played it so someone who hasn’t should get first dibs. 😀
GREENIUS. SO. KIND.
Oh, actually no. I already have an intimidating amount of games to play.
SOMEONE ELSE SHOULD PLAY MIRROR’S EDGE. IT’S AMAAAAZING.
I think most people already have it, but if no one else wants it, the PC copy is yours! I know you’ll want to replay it before the new one comes out 😀
(note comparisons!)
YOU’RE THE BEST!
Mirror’s Edge is a game I’ve replayed many a-time. I love it. There’s nothing like free running.
Probably one of my most replayed games of the last generation. 😀
SOMEONE PLAY THIS! 😀 😀 😀
A Thursday near enough to midday to be a midday question question:
If you could make a 4 player coop game ala L4D what would you make it about?
Attack on Titan.
Don’t know why, but it’d be awesome in multiplayer.
Have a limited pool of reinforcements, anytime someone dies by getting munched on or squished, you use up a recruit who has a name and a backstory and the respawn timer is you getting filled in on their personal history with photographs of their childhood and information about their hopes and dreams, loves and losses.
So, it’d play like L4D, with influences from XCOM?
I’d pre-order that in a heartbeat.
Seconding this someone make it happen
Does this also mean one of us can transform into a Titan?!!?!?
You need to check out Evolve.
Puhlease! I’ve been following it from Day 1 =p October 21st!
It wouldn’t be AoT without it. 🙂
Doing heists, running away.
Then they made Monaco.
Seriously? I’d love something that replicates a D&D-like experience, a Sword and Sorcery borderlands.
So kinda like Payday 2 where instead of seeing everyone walks into the game in protective bomb suits (and you know that you’re about to massacre three countries’ worth of uniforms and special forces), you actually do sneaky heisty stuff? I’d play that!
Kinda like the co-op missions in Splinter Cell but less takedowns, more safecracking.
I honestly think that games haven’t done sneaky sneaky crime really well- Monaco does, but GTA heists and Payday are all ROCK AND ROLL MACHINE GUNS
Sneaky sneaky crime is definitely an option in Payday however you do need to acquire the correct skills and equipment before you can do that. So it’s only after you go through shooting hundreds of cops that you can begin being all stealthy.
Yeah I kinda sit in on those games and use it as a toilet break as I play enforcer so sneaking isn’t my strong point
‘MERICA!! To the rescue of your vaults!
Republic Commando, converted from single-player controlling the squad to each squaddie is a human player.
Yessssss one of the best Star Wars games ever!! =[ I wish they’d continued that franchise… was so good 0,0 But from what I’ve read about Lucas Arts that company was horribly mismanaged =S
I still have no idea why the genuinely good and revered Star Wars games (Republic Commando, Battlefront, X-Wing vs TIE Fighter) have not been continued. People would snap up sequels to that game like no-one’s business.
Even republic commando with guns that didn’t suck would be nice. Seriously, no star wars FPS has gotten the point that shot 1 has to be in the centre of the crosshair or the gun is broken! Every subsequent shot can scatter but shot 1 has to go where it’s aimed…
But yeah, coop republic commando would be fucking awesome. Basically Rainbow Six Vegas set in the Star Wars universe, I’d buy the fuck out of that. Admittedly I’d prefer it to be stormtroopers rather than republic commandos but then you’d get the inevitable “oooh the empire iz teh evilz! Let’s defect to the rebels and be goodies!” story twist or some disappointing moralising bollocks.
The Thing.
4 people, each with a different set of skills, have to survive in Antarctica.
And spoiler for those who haven’t seen the movie:
The Thing has spread, so it’s more like “The Things” so you fight off Things that haven’t adapted to shapeshifting yet. Each player has a small chance of being a Thing (say…5%?). That way, when you get to the end of a level nobody knows who is or whether anyone is a thing. Get to the final room and viola! Somebody may become the final boss and have to play and take down their three prior squadmates. More mind screw-fuckery: You can have more than one Thing in a squad of four, in which case you’d have two Things wailing on each other AND the remaining two squaddies…or three Things vs each other vs one lone remaining squaddie who is trying to hide in the corner until one boss is left…I’d get together all the guys from Vigil and have them make the Darksiders 3 they were talking about.
That was meant to be 4p coop with all the horsemen wasn’t it? That would of been so sweet
Ok so after an incredibly full on first half to the day I’m back!! TAY may now continue.
whew, i was getting worried for a moment there
I know, right? Touch and go. Touch and go.
I have some stuff to give away on Steam:
2 x Dungeon Defenders (4 player co-op 3rd person tower defence….thing)
2x Torchlight – 1 already gone to @coldcamv
2x Risk of Rain GONE – to @tech_knight and @greenius
1x Dungeons of Dredmore (Lighthearted roguelike RPG, good little time waster)
1x Metro 2033
1x E.Y.E: Divine Cybermancy (No Idea to be honest, an FPS RPG?)
1x Section 8: Prejudice (Poor mans Halo)
1x Space Hulk
And saving the BEST FOR LAST!
2x 25% Off Pixel Piracy! (YEAH YOU CAN BUY THE GAME CHEAPER! OR GET BOTH FOR %50 OFF! THE MATH WORKS RIGHT?)
10% OFF Toki Tori 2 (BECAUSE I KNOW YOU WERE THINKING, GEE, I WOULD TOTALLY BUY TOKI TORI 2 IF IT WAS ONLY A BIT CHEAPER, SAY, 10 PERCENT – WELL GUESS WHAT? YOU’RE WILDEST DREAMS ARE ABOUT TO COME TRUE! IT’S TOKI TORI 2 TIME BITCHES!)
They’re the best…around! Nothin’ else is gonna get your prices down!
I’m guessing no-one would really want anything in the first part of the list – but make sure you act fast on the discounts in bold! A homeless man in the ally behind my work has already offered me his left testicle for the Toki Tori 2 discount, but I’m willing to accept a lesser amount because you guys get mates rates.
DREDMOR!
LUTEFISK FOR THE LUTEFISK GOD!
You’re doing birthdays wrong.
RISK OF RAIN! \o/
Ll jump in early and snap up a torchlight 2
I’m interested in Risk of Rain if it’s still available pleaseeee!
And does everyone have those discounts? I’ve got the exact same ones in the same quantities :/ 2x Pixel and 1x Toki… ugh!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY BILLY TALENT BUDDY
Yeah – They were given to everyone. I put them here as joke. I attempted to pawn them off onto @freyr last night when she gave me a steam card.
I think you’ve gotten a little addled in your old age. You’re meant to get, not give.
I’ve been playing it a bit since yesterday and I can confirm that Space Hulk is surprisingly not as shit as it seemed. By the sound of the launch reviews, I’d say they’ve put a decent chunk of work into it post-release to make it a reasonably decent game, nothing groundbreakingly spectacular but fairly fun.
Even if you are playing the vile mutants who should be purged as traitors to the Emperor.
Still better than playing as the bloody smurfs.
It’s VERY true to the original board game with very few nods to modern gamification. That’s probably why it’s been slammed by folks who weren’t expecting a carbon copy of the board game but a video game set in the board game’s world.
I’d be keen to take a look at Dungeons of Dredmore! Or Metro really. No idea what either is like, but they’ve both got positive feedback from others!
Sold!
Home sick, who’s up for a chin wag?
Hey Jim! What’s new? Hope you feel better soon! Was good seeing you at the meat the other week. Cool seeing you in dad mode. Blackgate is actually a pretty great game, you were right. How’s the family?
…
THAT’S ALL I GOT. (FOR NOW.)
What’s new? Nuttin
I hope to feel better too, although I feel OK, it s more the symptoms that have me home
Dad mode is me as Leonardo as opposed to Donatello normally or Mikey when drunk or Raph online
Yeah, I love Blackgate, dont get were all the hate was coming from
Family are sick too but otherwise fine
YOU?
I’m pretty okay! I just got better from being sick too! Took three weeks! D:
It is that time of year (soulless office comment)
That also applies to video game crowd and Steam sales! 😀
Blackgate?! Are we talking Ultima 7 here?!
Butmun
ahhh i see
Do you mean shin wag?
Nope
Shin wag.
Fuck you kotaku why you gotta mess up my links all the time?
“Sorry!
We couldn’t find the page you’ve requested
This could be because:
There’s a typo or error in the URL you have entered in your browser
There’s a technical issue or maintenance being carried out on the site
The page or post you’re looking for has been unpublished or removed”
Ouch. I meant the other shin wag.
You can see his link?
Yep.
I just tried in a new browser and still no luck.
Is this a trick?
Kotaku is being a bitch. Just inspect the youtube link in the URL.
HOLY FUCK!
How was the egg?
Was great, boiled eggs are great!
Just about to have a hot milo
Aussie style! hup hup hyup hup AUSSIE STYLE
So, Assassin’s Creed Back Flog is actually a pretty cool guy.
DAMN YOU UBISOFT, I WAS ALMOST FREEEEEEEEEEE.
Free of what, Ubi?
But Raymuns!!
But dogs in WWI!
Seriously, I’m more excited for Valiant Hearts than Ass Creed: Whatever time period we’ve decided on and can pick and appropriate one or two word heading about.
Oh yeah sounds good
Probably free of asscreed. I was on the verge of dropping it after AssRev and AssUSA. But Ass & Crossbones got me interested again since it was alright.
PariAss looks terribly average and unexciting so far though.
Ass ass in screed freed me on the first outing.
Such a cool idea, cool mechanics impressive (at thetime) graphics but so repetitive.
And no subs?
I couldnt understand a thing.
The first one was an amazing tech demo but you shouldn’t rate the franchise on it, 2 fixed basically everything that was wrong and then they have just iterated repeatedly on 2 and buggered it up more often than improved it.
That’s probably the most succinct summary of the AC franchise I’ve seen to date.
So I should play 2?
If you have no investment in the franchise whatsoever, I recommend starting with 4. It’s the best game in the series so far and distances itself from the over-arching plotline that was more present in 1-3. Also, they refined a lot of things. If you are curious about the franchise you could start with 2, but the ‘present day’ timeline plot doesn’t get resolved until 3, and 3 is kind of a pain in the ass to play through.
I think my coffee has yet to kick in cuz I read that as “Assassin’s Creed Black Frog”… so some DLC where you play as a small frog in Assassin’s robes killing Templar flies?
Or a doub;ly racist one about a dark skinned Frenchman
That’s been done, hasn’t it? Well, a Frenchwoman, anyway.
touche, Ubisoft, touche
I bought all the Bioshocks.
I am a bad husband and father. I will need to justify that $11.95 to my wife.
I’m only half-joking. She put a freeze on me buying things. She does not grasp the concept of a pile of shame.
Just keep doing it until she gets tired of yelling at you and gives up.
Secret of marriage right there.
I think she does grasp it… only maybe she’s scared of your pile (mine’s a tower) of falling over and hurting the little one(s)?
As long as my purchases are in the < $10 range I’m in the clear. I pointed out once it’s the cost of a magazine and we buy plenty of those… 🙂
Yay lunch break!
Feels weird being constantly asked by everyone to come out to lunch with them. And then having to keep saying no because I’ve got my own food with me. And then there’s all the asking about coffee too…
Odd, I thought you would be used to all the ladies asking you out to lunch by now.
It’s been a while 😛
Lunch!©
Hey Gooky, wanna come out to lunch?
Nah I already ate.
Second lunch.
Post-lunch which comes before Pre-Linner
New page repost:
I have some stuff to give away on Steam:
2 x Dungeon Defenders (4 player co-op 3rd person tower defence….thing)
2x Torchlight – 1 already gone to @coldcamv
2x Risk of Rain GONE – to @tech_knight and @greenius
1x Dungeons of Dredmore (Lighthearted roguelike RPG, good little time waster)
1x Metro 2033
1x E.Y.E: Divine Cybermancy (No Idea to be honest, an FPS RPG?)
1x Section 8: Prejudice (Poor mans Halo)
1x Space Hulk
And saving the BEST FOR LAST!
2x 25% Off Pixel Piracy! (YEAH YOU CAN BUY THE GAME CHEAPER! OR GET BOTH FOR %50 OFF! THE MATH WORKS RIGHT?)
10% OFF Toki Tori 2 (BECAUSE I KNOW YOU WERE THINKING, GEE, I WOULD TOTALLY BUY TOKI TORI 2 IF IT WAS ONLY A BIT CHEAPER, SAY, 10 PERCENT – WELL GUESS WHAT? YOU’RE WILDEST DREAMS ARE ABOUT TO COME TRUE! IT’S TOKI TORI 2 TIME BITCHES!)
They’re the best…around! Nothin’ else is gonna get your prices down!
I’m guessing no-one would really want anything in the first part of the list – but make sure you act fast on the discounts in bold! A homeless man in the ally behind my work has already offered me his left testicle for the Toki Tori 2 discount, but I’m willing to accept a lesser amount because you guys get mates rates.
“This coupon can not be used in conjunction with another discount“.
Taken directly from Steam. 🙁
@coldcamv – I’ll have to add you on steam when I get home
Why you no have me already :'(
Silly Steve-O, birthdays are for getting free stuff not giving free stuff.
Unless you’re a hobbit.
This just reminded me that Dungeon Defenders is pretty great.
Thanks mate! 😀
I hope you have another good “surprise” dinner 😛
Also a new page repost:
FREE STEAM GAMES:
Little Inferno
The Whispered World
TAKE THEM.
@dc said he’ll take them all!
Speaking of free steam games, I have three copies of 100% Orange Juice and a copy of Terraria to give away.
Actually, I’m kind of interested in Orange Juice, I wouldn’t mind a look-see if you can’t move it.
The drink or the game? And I guess a deeper question needed asking is that is the game based on the juice or having orange juice the game?
terraria is tempting but then … minecraft….
Dear god. The company I work for has based their entire marketing research and campaign off Sex and the City because that’s exactly what the majority of women are like right?
Horses?
I don’t think that’s how you spell that.
Sounds like someone needs to do some shoe shopping, or have sex with someone, or…
…ok, I know little about that show other than it’s a bit shit and often full of stereotypes.
Have sex with a shoe?
Hmmm?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfRieg1p81o (SFW)
Without even clicking on that I get the impression I should tag @anonymous_pessimist
http://www.cracked.com/video_18260_which-ninja-turtle-are-you-lifes-most-important-question.html
my chin isnt waGGINGGGG!!!
I’m not sure if the solution to this is more drugs, or less drugs.
Moderation of drugs and burritos
tacos
Nachos
Enchiladas.
Churros
All the drugs and all the tacos! Den followed by a dose of all the vidya games!
So in the last 6 days I’ve had 3 kebabs that’s a kebab every second day and I feel I am probably gonna have another one today for lunch as it’s just around the corner from where I’m working.
Damn you kebab you delicious delicious meat monster!
No context needed
Phrasing!
Issat your pornstar name?
At my old job there was a turkish place over the road that did turkish kebabs which were amazing. Problem is they were so good that I’m basically ruined forever because most kebab places aren’t remotely near as good.
Also nearby was a place that did super cheap Japanese stuff and I would basically alternate between chicken curry and kebabs with an occasional beef bowl.
Seeing that it is the cool thing to do, I have a copy of Battleblock Theatre to give away! You don’t know what battleblock theatre is? You should really watch the steam trailer.
LOOK AT THAT BEAUTIFUL REALISTIC HAIR SIMULATION!!! OMG! STEAM!
I… I have no idea what I just watched +_+
One of the best over the top game trailers is what you just watched!
I think I’m up to 6 views in the past few days and I’m still not sick of it.
I’m not going to say no if that gift copy ends up in my hands :P, but if someone else wants it more give it to them!Pretty sure you should give it to @scree because reasons!
I would also not say no, but I feel like I’ve had enoughThat’s not fair! Next time I have money I’m buying it for you.
You’re welcome! \o/
reasons or raisins.
The reasons is raisins?
Raisins for dais
That was amazing.
🙁
http://gematsu.com/2014/06/legend-heroes-akatsuki-no-kiseki-online-rpg-announced-first-details
Another Kiseki game we will never get localized. That makes eight, now (seven later this year when Trails in the Sky SC hits Steam, if it doesn’t end up delayed to 2015).
You can dance if you want to
You shouldn’t leave your friends behind
So today I went into a Target and saw a package behind the sign that says “Skylanders Wii U bundle – $178”, so I think ‘great. I’m going to buy one of these’.
“We don’t have any left”
Well, maybe if you didn’t have any left, you should remove the box from behind the sign!
But yeah, rant over. I’ve been playing the Walking Dead on Vita recently, love the style of the game, especially the trailers. Also, are the trailers predictive of your choices in the next episode? Because I was shown some seens in the trailer that weren’t in the episode, so it’d be pretty cool if it predicted what you’re going to do.
Question: Which franchise do you think needs the TellTale treatment? I reckon an Agents of Shield one would be pretty good.
Telltale’s Battle Royale!
Top 5!
Halo
Call of Duty
Gears of War
LoL
TF2
In all seriousness… Top 5!
Assassin’s Creed
The Last of Us
World of Warcraft
Dishonoured
Final Fantasy
TellTale’s Discworld.
You play as Vimes.
Co-workers asked me why I was suddenly and desperately throwing my wallet at the screen.
Telltales’ Millennium Actress
Man, here’s some great ones just from scrolling down my Steam library:
YAY SPOILER TAGS PREVENT LISTSPAM
Adventure Time
Agarest
Alan Wake
Baldur’s Gate
Batman (Arkham series)
Bioshock
Brutal Legend
Consortium
Costume Quest
Darksiders
Dead Space
Defiance
Deus Ex
Dragon Age (honestly, wasn’t that what everyone liked about the game anyway?)
Fallout
Half-Life
Homefront
Kane & Lynch (WHAT. I LIKED THE CHARACTERS OK)
Kingdoms of Amalur
Mass Effect (see as above for DA:O/DA2)
Metro (Last Light/2033)
Mirror’s Edge (I can’t be the only person who dug the backstory)
ODDWORLD (COME ON)
Psychonauts
Red Faction
Remember Me (fuck combat, all memory-sequencing and conversations!)
STALKER
Sam & M–ohwait
Shadowrun
KOTOR
The Banner Saga
XCOM (Bureau in particular)
The Darkness
The Longest Journey/Dreamfall
The Witcher
Vampire: Bloodlines (best when played like that anyway)
Wasteland
Zeno Clash
I think the real no-brainers would be Oddworld, Deus Ex, Vampire (Bloodlines), Shadowrun, and Defiance. RIPE for exploration.
Remember Me – my god, they could save that IP via the Telltale Treatment (TM).
Right? The memory sequencing in a more story-oriented environment, with more characters and personalities in the mix? That could be a mind bender.
Shadowrun’s universe would be perfect!
Star Wars
Indiana Jones
Blade Runner
Metallica have a new song out! :O
Apropos of nothing, think it’s pretty cool that the Steam Community vote category ‘Story Rich – Female Protagonist’ includes Mass Effect.
SHEPARD WAS A WOMAN, DAMMIT.
Lies.
In your head maybe. In my world he had a blonde flat top and handlebar moustache combo and was camper than a row of tents.
Side-vote… plus one. Because I’m stealing that tent thing.
Seriously though the female voice actress did a fantastic job, whereas the male one made me want to stop playing.
I could never tell if he was angry, sad or happy.
My wife was the same way. I didn’t mind it but Mark Meer’s dialogue delivery plus the fact she always saw me doing boring-looking sidequests instead of story missions kept her from playing Mass Effect until a month or so after ME2 came out. I think she might have changed her mind when she saw me doing a second playthrough as a female. Now it’s one of her favourite franchises.
I’m so sad about my wrist being not cool.
Not only can I not really do anything (although thankfully I found a comfy way to play the PS3!) but with nothing to blog about, the momentum I was just getting is all wasted.
That post on “My Favourite Quilt” for the link-up party now has 53 views and will keep getting more until the end of the month but I’m not sure how long it will be until I can make another interesting post.
I think I’ll have to bribe Mr. Strange to take some photos of the quilts I made for the kids so that I’ll at least have two more things to make posts about.
Oh! Also, @batguy and @cookingmama, the game and movie arrived yesterday. Thanks again!
I’m all excited about your “black, blue, shark” thing and have it all planned out ready for when my wrist is behaving itself again. 😀
Not a bad number of views for something so new! The quilt blogging community must be more active than I thought 😛
Momentum is pretty important though. You can always do some ‘inspiration’ posts to try and pad out your content a bit while you recover!
The Modern Quilt movement was driven almost entirely by online connection. And yes, I’m kind of happy with the views right now. The second highest is the second part of my Gloryhammer quilt story, with 43 which is very good considering I didn’t have the benefit of a link with a huge site to drive views. Although part one only has 32 so a bunch of people obviously didn’t like what I wrote enough to want to go back and read part one as well. 😛
Don’t get too discouraged, that happens with everything! The large bulk of stats I see for most websites is people just looking at one page and then leaving 😛 Maybe put a link to any previous entries at the start of the post as well as at the end?
I think one of the main reasons my Mum was so relaxed about me having “internet friends” and doing stuff with you lot and whatever is because she’d made quilting friends online. So thanks quilting, you and Farmville are the reasons my mother’s cool with my hobbies now.
Do a post about your wrist not being cool and how you have found/are trying to find ways of quilting whilst injured. Or throw it open to those 53 viewers – how do you quilt when you’ve got a bum wrist? Anybody got ideas? Ask them what they do to keep the hobby going when you can’t do that hobby?
Use your injury as the starting point of your next post, then get Mr Strange to type while you dictate. And then get him to bring you drinks and snacks, because you’re not well damnnit!
I already did a post on quilting with a bum wrist. I called it “Scrap Vomit” because that’s what the results looked like. 😛
I like your Mr. Strange idea. I’ve already tried to get him to actually sew something for me as I think that would be an awesome post, but I don’t think I plyed him with enough alcohol before asking. 😀
Out of curiosity, do you know how many followers you have? I’ve been using Tumblr for the RPG writing I’ve been doing and I think I’m hovering around 25 although that has taken the better part of a year to get there.
I have a whole one follower! 😀
Tay Pathfinder has nine.
One’s @popdart5 and one’s @beeawwb
Well now I have a goal: to get more followers than you guys! 😛
You have 2 now!
How do you create a steam event? Do you have to be a group admin?
Yep. What do you want to create? I’m an admin
Torchlight 2 event, for whenever these things usually go down.
If you could please.
Which day?
Today 😛
One of my dogs has decided to sit on my lap and use my flightstick as a pillow.
:3
Just remembered that while we were waiting for the bus this afternoon my son suddenly asked me something:
“Have you ever heard of Bacon Spray?”
“Baking Spray?”
“No, BACON spray. You know, your favourite thing. Bacon. There should be some Bacon Spray. If you didn’t like your dinner you could spray it with Bacon Spray and then it tastes like bacon and nothing is yucky anymore.”
I know there’s such a thing as bacon deodorant and I think even bacon soap. Honestly I’d be surprised if someone hadn’t invented bacon spray.
Baconnaise is probably the closest thing i know of 😛
Baconnaise is awesome. And bacon salt.
Sounds like something @shiggyninty would be veeeery interested in.
It’s what Jesus would eat.
Or so the Baconweave scriptures proclaim!
I was looking at a recipe before with a “Bacon dressing”
Make it and Snacktaku it!
Full confession: Bacon is OK, but I don’t worship it.
This is sensible.
To be honest, there’s not much bacon in Australia worth worshipping. 😛
But still, bacon dressing sounds super tasty. Find some Gotzinger bacon and try that, too.
That was on n ABC3 TV Show called “You’re Skitting Me”
Here’s the clip of the bacon spray part: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJh6jCSTjkk
Often, this is what I feel like doing when I’m stuck at work.
New video card in (Thanks @tech_knight!)
I would like to celebrate by playing games but instead I will work on cosplays. Because I am a good worker. Games are my reward!
soooo… L4D2 soon because that didn’t happen last time? 😛
I will block some of my knitting then after I put a pattern together, I might be able to play \o/
That’s the spirit!
You may have a copy of Battleblock Theater waiting in your inventory for you. =P
I may have redeemed it >_>
It’s my pleasure Scree *polite bow* I hope the card serves you well. 🙂
It took all day. But I finally managed to track down @mrtaco, ambush him at the train station and steal his identity.
Aw, you didn’t scare him again did you? D:
Just a little.
This is a thing, and it’s fantastic. 😀
Also, thanks @transientmind!
What a guy! 😀
I present to you Battleblock Theater Secret Level Music
I’m pretty sure I have to immediately play this game.
friendsientmind :’D
@dc
Adventure games. I’m thinking of getting Mum into them, but I worry that a lot of them are too hard. Do you know of any easy ones? Where the puzzles aren’t ridiculous?
She’s a fan of the Walking Dead series right? What about The Walking Dead?
I have tried but because it’s not the same as the TV show, she won’t play it. She may watch me play it (And the new video card has a HDMI cable port!)
Hmmm, maybe something like Broken Age would be good. It’s fairly simple in mechanics and puzzles but has all the traits of the greats! Possibly will go on sale for under $10 too if that community vote price was any indication. I’m tempted to say Night of the Rabbit, but I know there’s some wacky adventure logic in there that clicks with some but doesn’t with others. The Broken Sword games aren’t too tough and there’s remastered special editions for the first two games available for phones and tablets.
Thanks for the advice. I’ll check out broken age and broken sword
God damn it @transientmind. That was there in case I won something from the team win. Now I’ll have to find something else /o\
Thank you fine sir.Car Mechanic Simulator?
CAR MECHANIC SIMULATOR?!?
CAR…
MECHANIC….
SIMULATOR???!?!?!?
Is this what we have come to? For reals?
Good god it’s the worst job I ever had made into an entertainment game.
Will it teach me to fix cars though.
Apparently no.
Gah! What’s the point of it then?!
Maybe there’s a market of rich CEO types who secretly get off pretending to be a menial worker but don’t want to actually get their hands dirty?
Maybe someone should punch them >_
Next up: Checkout Pleb Simulator.
McDonalds: Managing abuse simulator
Council Worker 3: Extreme Procrastination.
Stadium Janitor Simulator.
Grand Final Bathroom add on coming soon.
Isn’t that what those self checkout things in supermarkets are for?
Claims Adjuster 2014
– Deal with members of the public who think “public liability” means “free money”
– Learn about the Wrongs Act 1958 and Personal Injuries Proceedings Act 2002
– Pretend to be a real lawyer when talking on your mobile phone in public
– Awkwardly attend business-funded social engagements and pretend to fit in
– Add a glossary of impenetrable business acronyms and attend presentations that have no bearing on your day to day work
GET AROUND IT, on it, IN IT! Car mechanic simulator!! Simulate actually fixing cars! *explosion*
BUT YOU GET TO FILL OUT INVOICES \o/
Nothing says reality like paperwork
I own that.. It’s pretty good in all honestly, completed like 160 something jobs so far 😛
@transientmind I feel you need to know this information after Farming Simulator 2013 😛
@transientmind you legendary son of a gun, I was looking at DA:O Ultimate because it came with all the DLC but decided to let it go since I have Shane’s PS3 copy already. Now I owe you!
Well. We’ll see if you feel the same way when you’re crashing to desktop on that DLC maybe. 😉
It was a trap, always a trap
It’s okay, just don’t open the quest log, or the inventory, or transition to another area, or talk to NPC’s, or launch the game, or close the game …
And downloading the 24 gigs. Might set that to run during off-peak hours!
@Transientmind appreciation page? 😛
He even bought a game for my mum =D
No word of a lie. Dead set fuckin legend!
Truly his mind is more transient than hours.
WERE NOT WORTHY!
Nooo. At the rates I picked those things up it was more like shouting y’all some beers that I felt were pretty important to try. I just kinda realized I should get those things out of inventory before peoples’ wishlists fill up and I’m left holding copies I can’t move. 😛
(Also… trading cards!)
Like me, I still have a copy of FTL from Christmas last year I can’t offload
Oh man, but it’s such a great game! Give it to @dc.
Great idea! Didn’t think of that as I figured he’d refuse
Thanks man! YOU SO KIND! 😀
Have you never played FTL?! :O
Nope!
You’re in for a treat! 😀
Right? It’s frickin’ bite-sized awesome.
As long as you consider stress and inevitable failure ‘awesome’. Which y’know. WHO DOESN’T?
I played on Easy :3
I have a feeling my sister will love this game even if it doesn’t click with me though, so it’ll be loved regardless. Thanks again, Cam! (But saying that, it’ll probably click with me too. :D)
Easy isn’t easy it’s just 40% Less Bullshit Hard.
Huh. Valiant Hearts is actually REALLY good. Looks beautiful and some genuine feels thrown in there. Levels (at least the ones I’ve played) flow well with cutscenes and stuff happening around the screen as you play. Everything has this charm to it that makes you want to keep playing.
Very much recommend.
I may add it to my wishlist. My proper wishlist (it’s like 3 games)
Haven’t played it yet.
I need to be in the right mood to cry.
Watch the notebook, followed by a fault in our stars then sit down to play with the saddest music going softly in the background
Finally get home, have dinner. Ready to start playing a new game since I finished Nier over the weekend and haven’t made a decision what to move to yet.
Super tired, falling asleep at the keyboard. At 8:30pm. When did I become an old man 🙁
MQNFT!
(@powalen >:|)
btw, Brisbane people, I’m terribly bad with organising and letting people know of plans, I’m 30 tomorrow and heading out to Sabotage Social in the Valley on Saturday for drinkage. Feel free to come out and come drink and/or socialise
Downvoted because it’s too short notice, dammit. I would have loved to have celebrated you getting old!
As an early present, I suggest you check out a band called Twilight Force who are Gloryhammer-esque and feature guest vocals from Sabaton’s singer on the song ‘Gates Of Glory’.
Yeah, I know notice has been extremely short 🙁 ah well, will try and organise something in a few weeks
Yay new music 😀 it’s been a long long time since I listened to some new power metal (Gloryhammer aside). Annoyed at myself for not having checked out the most recent Tyr album yet. For shame 🙁
Happy Birthday, for yesterday!
Hope you had fun last night, sorry again that I couldn’t make it.
https://www.humblebundle.com/gift?key=aCABWTHaRK5YwkwB
Goddammit Greenius. I was curious, so I followed your little paper trail, but I already own this game.
Edit: Problem solved.
Guy that nobody likes:”But Blaghs, what abou-”
Blaghs:”I. Said. Problem. Solved.”
So now what :P? Is the gift redeemed or still up for grabs?
EDIT: I have no idea what just happened!
Well, it auto-linked it to my humble account, so I unlinked it, so it should still be up for grabs via that link. I think.
But I clicked that link, so does that mean it’s back on mine?
/o\
No, it only linked it to mine because I followed the gift link, it should now spit out a steam code for whoever clicks that button first.
I think.
Yeah. That’s exactly what it did. Didn’t even give me warning or a choice /o\
It says linked to Greenius’ account click here to unlink, but I don’t know if that’s because I clicked on the link, or just because I’m already signed into HB’s site.
SOMEONE ELSE CLICK ON IT, IT’S A GOOD GAME I SWEAR.
Oh. Well, it doesn’t say that when I look at it, so it should work for someone.
….
God damnit.
Thanks! But I was trying to give it away, it was a spare key 😀
Is the Ship that multiplayer murder mystery game you were talking about? I may be interested in a multi sesh 😀
That’s the one. I may have to start gifting out some copies to get a few more people in. Doesn’t look like many have it.
I have it! Never played it though. Time for Freeze the super organised adult to set up a playdate for the children!
I’m actually not even sure if I’m supposed to be mocking someone here, and if so, who is the target.
I see the problem. How the heck are we not Steam friends?
Because I’m a bit of a shitlord.
@blaghman I didn’t even realise…
Thanks to encouragement from you guys (especially @powalen and @quiz_b) I managed to figure out some sewing I could do and now have a new blog post up. \o/
http://strangestitches.blogspot.com.au/2014/06/strip-therapy.htmlNot sure I should click on that with my wife around…
Masha Mondays! 😀
make it into a hoodie!
Why is this so hard I just want to try and get positional tracking going with the Hydra WHY IS IT SO EASY FOR EVERYONE ELSE THAT THERE ARE NO STEP-BY-STEP TUTORIALS OUT THERE THAT CAN GET IT WORKING FOR ME
PC blasted race…
lol git gud n00b
#helping
http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2011/05/16/his-dark-thesis
“BECAUSE I CAN’T PUNCH THE INTERNET.”
@greenius said I should MQFT. So I will. What game should I play next, TAY?
A, B, D
Bravely Default 😛 (that’s what I’m assuming it is anyway)
Don’t cheat.
Also since you’re so smart, what are A and D?
Well B was the only one I picked up on :P. I wanted to say Agarest (but I know it’s wrong) so I’m thinking Ar Tonelico-something? No idea about D… uh Dragon Age: Origins?
Ateilier Rorona (spelling) and Drakengard 3?
I was curious and looked back at his old post and it’s most likely these two. I was close(ish) with my guesses though 😛
A Winner is you
I can’t recommend Valiant Hearts enough. Such a unique, beautiful take on the platformer. I love it.
Have you finished it? How long is it if so? If it’s something I can knock out in a couple of good sessions i.e. 8-12 hours then I might play my copy at some point soon.
Haven’t finished it, alas.
Think I’m closer to the start than finish, too. 🙂
Based on the amount of collectibles in the game and what I’ve obtained already? I can’t imagine it’s going to be very long.
I want to play it, but I don’t have the money to buy it. I’ll definitely be looking at getting it from PSN when I can.
I’m playing with mouse and keyboard. Plays pretty great here too, but would imagine a controller is the optimal method of playing. (Plus I think a HDTV, comfy couch and dark room would serve the game well.)
Yeah, I tried playing it with kb/m for like, 2 seconds. Then I plugged in my controller, which is just assumed was a PS3 controller (which maps incorrectly), so I restarted the game, and it is way better with a controller.
It is pretty great, I got carried away and am only making dinner now. Got completely drawn in :D.
So fucking beautiful and strangely compelling despite the stylized, minimalist structure.
Has anyone finished (or put a significant amount of time into) Professor Layton vs. Phoenix Wright?
As a fan of both series I was pretty interested when it was announced and was even happier when the localisation was announced. I was planning to pick it up later down the line when it’s cheaper but I just couldn’t resist Big W’s launch price. Gotta support them!
I’ve been very slowly playing it since launch and it’s just so very average :(. The past week I’ve been forcing myself to get through it and it’s just such a drag! It takes the really simple and average (early game) parts of both series and combines them together. Oh joy! So you’re left with simple puzzles (that are mostly trial and error with no real “failure”) and really simple court cases. This makes it end up feeling like two games mashed together than anything coherent. I’m certain I’m right near the end but I just want it to be over 😛
Initially it made me remember what I loved about both series and made me want to go and play Professor Layton 5 and 6, and Ace Attorney 5. but now it’s making me want to play them less (at least not so soon after), which is a bummer :(. I assumed it reviewed alright in Japan but Neg was all “IT’S THE WORST THING EVER” and I didn’t believe him 😀
There’s still enough in it for anyone who’s a fan of both series but ehhhhhhh
I never really saw much in the way of positive word about it, most people were saying what you just did so I never really bothered.
I played it and didn’t mind it, I enjoyed the storyline and while the puzzles were easy I really loved the story and animated cutscenes. It can be a grubs but overall I reckon it was good
Also it was the first Prifessor Layton game I’ve beaten
I finished it, and I loved it, but I have a … weird taste when it comes to good games.
I really liked it’s story, though. It’s story, it’s just, so good.
Keep in mind that this was aimed to fans of both franchises, so if the Layton puzzles were too hard, then the Phoenix players will get stuck and if the Court Cases were too hard, then the Layton players would be stuck, so they had to make it easy all around.
Where are you by the way? I can tell you how close you are to the end, if you want.
I hate its story! (but to be fair all Layton games have whacky stories, AA is a little bit more grounded at least)
I know it was for both fans but the puzzles are 95% trial and error ones. It’s entirely possible to put some easier puzzles that require logic to solve rather than using the d-pad to move through pre-determined courses. It’s a bit hard to explain what I mean but it’s just didn’t feel like a solid mix of puzzle varieties.
I knew I was near the end (I was at 21 hours or so when I posted that) but I’m watching the credits now 😛
Yeah. Half the Puzzles were:
Cloud Maze 1
Cloud Maze 2
Cloud Maze 3
Ground Maze 1
Ground Maze 2
Ground Maze 3
etc.
But yeah, I can see what you mean. I still like the story though.
I’m usually interested until the big stupid “twist” that always comes late in the Layton games 😛
Wish list full.
2 games are for me. 33 are for Mum. =P
So what you’re saying is you want people to play the “let’s guess which ones are for Scree” game and try and gift you those? 😛
Not at all. I already feel bad for receiving the amount of games I got. The point of wishlist in them means I don’t have to sort through that darn list again
Or who’s generous enough to gift them so both scree and her mum are happy \o/
What kind of crazy monkey would do that?
Colobus monkey..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYz3sl0LEA4
These may be some of the best commercials ever made. Panda Cheese.
Oh god Panada cheese.. that Panda, what an asshole.
So I got Another World on steam the other day, and my game is broken. I checked a walkthrough to verify and
it seems when I shoot down a glass ball in one screen a guard in a later screen should be knocked out. In my game he is not. I have gone and replayed up to that point to ensure I did it right, and definitely did, but the guard is still there and it’s not possible to battle him conventionally.Lovely game, but unfortunately my time with it has come to a premature conclusion.
Shit…
After finishing our Torchlight 2 session, I noticed that the dogs had peed on my bed.
Shit.
D:
If it makes you feel better my sheets are the laundry and so I cant go to bed till they dry
Not shit, pee :p
Finished work tonight, and decided to go in and watch Transformers 4 instead of going home, baaaaad decision. Oh my God, I could not believe how bad that movie was. If you are any sort of fan of the cartoon, do yourself a favour and don’t waste your time or money, I watched it for free and still felt ripped off.
MICHAEL BAY THE DESTROYER OF CHILDHOOD DREAMS, I WANT MY 3 HOURS BACK YOU GIANT FUCKTARD!
Look to the stars…
Watch How To Train Your Dragon 2!
Problem solved!
\o/
Took my son to see it last weekend, we both thought it was pretty good. Still gotta get The Riders Of Berk TV series, because apparently it bridges the gap between the first and second films. When I saw that
Hiccup had lost his leg, I was like what? How?He lost it at the end of the first movie after the town gets attacked by the Red DeathDid he? Shit, I don’t remember that part, I’m gonna have to watch the first one again.
Yeah I forgot too dont worry but I rewatched the first one after seeing the second one
PS4 for $499 at Target!
http://www.target.com.au/p/ps4-console-5-gb/55240697
I want my last four hours back.
Did you go and see Transformers too?
No.
Been thinking about it though. Think I saw the second with a friend I haven’t seen in a long while, was considering dropping a message to see if they wanted to catch up.
Everything alright then bud? what happened to the last few hours?
You should definetely get in touch with them to see how they are and what they been upto, then maybe catch up over drinks
Haha nothing major, just the above frustrations 😛 I just hate spending ages churning through the depths of google only to have ended up making no ground at all. Especially with how frequently it seems to happen, I’m just lucky that this time I was keeping an eye on the clock and didn’t end up going on through to 4am like usually happens.
I saw that earlier but I had no idea what you were talking about so didnt respond, even now I still have no idea what it is or what it does haha
Sorry man, but I had to downvote you for even thinking about going to see it.
FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THAT IS SACRED, DO NOT GO AND SEE THAT TRAIN WRECK OF A MOVIE. I want it to be a financial failure so they don’t let Michael Bay make them any more (even though they’ve already confirmed another sequel).
I liked all the other movies (and seem to recall finding the third one to be particularly good), plus Marky Mark is rad. So I still wanna 😛
Honestly, I thought that this one was going to be better than the first three because Marky Mark was in it instead of Shia LaBoofhead, I now realize how wrong I was.
Edit: Don’t say I didn’t warn you.
First off I want to say thank you to @dc so damn kind, gifted me valiant hearts! ughh im gonna give it all the feels and then some!
Secondly I want to thank @steve-o_the_deve-o for SPACEEEE HUUULLLLKKKK! which I know is gonna get some playtime soon!
And Finally I still have one copy of ONION DINO SHOOTY BANG BANG for anyone whos keen, its an aquired taste of game but coop with taybies is a hella lotta fun i can attest to this!
I think @scree would like this, she was asking how much it was the other day
Hope your right as games in the mail!
Enjoy, my friend. So many people have gifted me stuff this Steam sale. I truly feel blessed to have awesome pals like you folks. I also happened to have a whole lot of credit left over cause people bought me the things I was planning on buying myself. I’m content too. If I don’t buy any thing else these sales then it won’t matter cause I gots me a stockpile. 😀 So I felt the need to share the love. <3 Have fun, man. You’re one of the good ones. 😀
Gonna make a grown man cry man, shouldnt of cut these onions before writing this.
All the love has been shared this summer/winter sale and everyone has been generous in their gift giving and coming together! It’s always humbling to be part of an amazing community that cares so much about each other, all the feels for everyone!
Well I thought I was special but then I read this page and find that @transientmind as been sowing his wild oats all over the place
ThanksYeah @transientmind, just checked my Steam inbox thanks heaps for Mars: War Logs and How To Survive dude.
What a guy.
Oh My God, Queensland has Krispy Kreme!
I’m going to spend my entire holidays just sitting in their store getting fat :3
All their donuts look so good!
I still can’t get over the fact that King of Fighters XIII does not support hard drives over 2TB. It’s been a year since release, so this will never be patched. I can’t get the game to install off an external drive. The only way to do this would be to:
1. Install the game onto my tiny SSD with 14GB left.
2. Dig up my old 500GB hard drive, unplug the new one, and plug in the old one. Do this every time I want to play the game.
Why SNK Playmore?
It’s just plain cruel to sell a game called “You need a budget” half way through the steam sales.
Last day of the steaam sale it will be the only game on sale as a constant message that “you need a budget” because yo ass broke!
Digital giveaways. Pfft, that’s not so tangible.
Anyone want a copy of KOTOR for the Xbox or Prototype for the 360?
I didn’t have time to go into K-Mart for you yesterday man, sorry, I’ll do it today though, I’ll check Target as well.
Hey man, just wondering if you’d had any luck with the hunt. Mrs Shane is going Big W shopping tomorrow, and wants to know whether or not she should be buying Mario Kart for me. Thanks! 🙂
So I was crafting Steam Adventure cards and it said I received a “Starter Pack” but I don’t seem to have anything in my inventory that corresponds to this. Anyone know what the story with that is?
Neeever mind, it’s for TF2, which I don’t play, and I can’t sell it.
You can’t sell it, wtf.. Steam let me sell my Brutal Legend starter pack :S
I guess it’s probably because it’s F2P or something? I have a whole bunch of untradeable items as well, from the 2 hours or so I spent playing it when it first went free.
There’s your standard items you can’t sell but then there’s versions of them you can etc..
*tumbleweed blows by*
Let’s smoke it!
I just reminded myself of how awesome the Ressurection Plant is
Dead for a hundred years? Nope
DC just gotta get high
Shave that beard you London drug dealer!
Was talking to my brother yesterday for the first time in months. When we were kids I liked adventure games, he liked action games. That’s just how it was. Yesterday he started telling me about all these great games i should play… like Dear Esther and Gone Home and adventure games. HE LIKES THE GAMES I LIKE NOW AND THINKS I DON’T KNOW ABOUT THEM!
Strange. D:
Your influence rubbed off on him subconsciously.
What does @strange have to do with it?
Strange is a criminal mastermind who was exposed to the monster gene in an unfortunate lab accident. When there’s scheming a-foot? YOU BEST BELIEVE STRANGE IS BEHIND IT! D:
DC is secretly Dastardly Conspiracy Man, archenemy of @strange and her wily monster gene powers.
HA! He can’t borrow and destroy those (digital) copies 😀
Thanks @crazyguy1990, @steve-o_the_deve-o, @jocon and @pupp3tmast3r for joining in on the Torchlight 2 fun last night and double thanks Jo for organising it. A couple of connection hiccups and people trying to go all lone wolf on the main storyline while the rest of us did secondary quests and dungeons (:P) but all in all a ton of fun. Next week we’ll upgrade it to Elite difficulty so Torchlight 2 multi can dish out the hardest fights for us! We were kinda just stomping through everything with our huge amounts of firepower on Veteran. 🙂
It’s good to finally put some time into it – It’s a really great game. Without other people to play it with it just kept getting pushed up on the pile of shame.
This iss kinda my experience with Magicka as well currently, that’s one I gotta play from start to finish as well.
Yeah who was that crazyguy who ran off on a tangent doing the main quest by himself?! (pun intended) =P Man I was getting the crappiest drops last night +_+ I think since we’re playing on veteran all the bloody quest rewards were for level 20-30 characters…. I basically ended up choosing tags for my pet for every quest!
Also thanks for organizing it jo! And to the rest for joining in! I think we have space for one more yes? On thursdays?
Well you can always hold onto it for later levels/stash it too. I’ve done that as I’ve got some items in my inventory that are waiting to be unlocked with levels like my higher damage shotgun.
I’m planning on sticking it to Thursdays as it works with my schedule 🙂
Man i’d love to join in, but i feel like, having missed the first session, i’ll either have a character not high level enough, or too high levelled XD.
Plus the fact that i suck and would probably just drag you guys down 😛
But hey if you’re ever a guy short, give me a holler!
Well we would actually have room for one more, and we’re only up to level 10, you could catch up to us for next session, though we will be playing on Elite so we might have to escort you a bit 😛
what classes is everyone playing as? i might jump in and just start leveling, shouldn’t take too long to get to 10
We’ve currently got:
2 Ember Mages
1 Outlander (Me)
1 Engineer
1 Beserker
Oh good, there’s room for another damage sponge \o/ 😛
@pixel_the_ferret_viking, and @aliasalpha, I’ve finally got a bit of time to format and reinstall Windows, I’ve copied the Steamapps folder onto my external drive, so I should be good to go. Also, I had a look at the secondary HDD and apparently it’s completely empty, it’s been installing everything to the OS drive, so I should only have to format the OS drive.
It’s an Asus laptop, if I format and do a fresh install of Windows that will get rid of all the Bloatware, correct? Also, once Windows and Steam are reinstalled do I just copy and replace the Steamapps folder within Steam?
You can back up your Steam games, too. (Through the back up/restore menu in Steam.) That’s what I do after I buy something. 🙂
Probably a lot more precise than just copying SteamApps file but that will probably work too. (Maybe, I’ve never tried it. XD)
I tried backing it up that way the other day, it would get to 5.2GB and stop (and I was trying to backup over 60GB worth). Pixel said that copying that folder works everytime for him.
Oh, disregard then. 😀 CARRY ON!
I think copying the folder over doesn’t register with Steam until you try to install, then it just attempts to check and download all the files and finds that – hey! They’re all there! Then doesn’t download them. Unless the game’s patched/changed since you backed up.
Yeah, that sounds exactly like what Pixel told me the other day. So just to clarify once I’ve reinstalled Windows and Steam I copy and replace the Steamapps folder, and then try to install all those games and I should be all good, yeah?
It’s really weird because Steam works, but none of my browsers will. I’m having to either use my old computer or my phone to browse the net.
When you reformat & keep steam games, you can copy the entire steam folder (not just steamapps) and it should work perfectly as long as you just run the steam EXE again from the root directory or install in the same location. It’s not too registry dependent.
The way I understand it, the thing that determines what steam knows to be installed on the local machine is the clientregistry.blob file and if you delete that, you can copy data from one steamapps folder to another then when you log in, it’ll detect the missing file, rebuild it by scanning your library and local files and then detect what you’ve got installed locally. I’ve not tried that method myself but it makes a degree of sense so I’m tempted to give it a crack since I want to copy space hulk across from my laptop and it’s 2.2GB, might as well not download it again if I can avoid it.
CC @transientmind, @evilmonkey
If you install a fresh version of Windows, be prepared to have to re-install all the drivers… if it’s not too late, i would recommend jumping on Asus’ website and downloading AT MINIMUM the Network, video and audio drivers… that’s enough to get you started… otherwise you’re going to have a laptop that potentially can’t connect to a network because it doesn’t know it’s own network card XD
Too late, already started reinstalling. I s’pose I’ll cross that bridge if and when I come to it.
fairo, if you can get on another ‘puter and download the network drivers, you should be sweet… don’t suppose you have another computer in the house/close by/accessible?
Yeah, I’m using my old computer now, so it’s all good.
schweeet, you should be golden then… let me know if you have any issues!
I’m at work at the moment, so if it’s urgent shoot me a tweet otherwise i might not respond straight away
So far so good, Windows and Chrome reinstalled, I can now log into Kotaku with IE and I can actually use Chrome. Steam reinstalled, installing Anti-virus now, then all I have to do is copy over the Steamapps folder.
Yaaaaaaay \o/ excellent, that new OS install smell!
i should probably do that sometime soon but, eh! effort 😛
@pixel_the_ferret_viking Just copying the Steamapps folder now, then I should be all good. Installed the OS onto the main drive, and decided to install steam on the secondary drive, which for some weird reason is bigger. That won’t cause problems will it?
@evilmoney nah that should be fine… i even have my steamlibrary split over 2 drives are the moment XD have plans on changing that soon though
As long as you format and install windows from an OS disc rather than run a recovery from some asus supplied disc, you’re grand there.
Is it too early to start working on my pile of shame? Considering I haven’t purchased a whole lot these sales I’ve been actually playing games (I know right). Polished off Kill Team last night and I will move on to finally playing LA Noire.
It’s never too early to work on your pile of shame. L.A. Noire is awesome, you’ll love it.
First Rockstar game I will ever play too. \o/
Damn son, in that case you really have to play Red Dead Redemption straight after that then.
I would except that would require picking up a console.
MASTER RACE 4 LYFE
You’re really missing out on a fantastic game man.
They’re missing out on a shitload of sales 😛
?!
You’ve been missing out. Should check out Max Payne 3, such an awesome game.
If it’s your first Rockstar game, be very cautious and don’t expect great things. Their world-building is excellent, but their gameplay is uninspired and glaringly so in LA Noire.
Agreed. Unless you’re one of those monsters who didn’t!
…..
MONSTER.
They’re the monsters.
We’re all monsters now. :'(
http://youtu.be/HS7FiMl-u4w
Get ready to lose a lot of your free time! L.A. Noire is one helluva game =] Pity the studio shut down =[
One of the tutors at my wife’s college where she’s learning game/app development used to work at Team Bondi. He… doesn’t have very nice things to say about his time working there, sadly.
Just remember express doubt does not mean “I’m not sure you’re telling the entire truth little old lady”.
It’s more “YOU’RE A GOD DAMN LIAR YOU FILTHY CRONE WHORE, I WILL RIP YOUR HEAD OFF AND FUCK YOUR SKILL WHILE I SHIT ON YOUR BODY UNLESS YOU CONFESS FUUUUUUUUUCCCKKKK YOOOOOOOOUUUUUUUU!”
Obviously.
Hey, man. Kenny from Mad Men was having a tough day!
I haven’t played LA Noire since watching Mad Men… that might be interesting.
It was hilarious how extreme and violently accusatory expressing doubt was over the actual accusation option.
Haha, I think I read that the doubt option was something else for most of development. They changed it towards the end and then half the dialogue options made no sense. XD
I loved L.A Noire but it really did suffer from a bad case of “hey, that’s not what I wanted you to say”.
Also, sometimes I would having damning evidence and try to use it on the right person and the game would be like “no, you were supposed to doubt him when he said ‘I didn’t do it’, not prove that he did it”
Yeah. The investigation/interrogation was the best and worst part of the game. I want more games like that, but maybe ones that… you know… work better?
I’ll join the ‘LA Noire is amazing’ chorus line.
I started my pile of shame reduction effort in May or so. It’s never too early.
…but it’s always too late 🙁
Never too late to cry into the pile, or give it to your grand kids in your will \o/
Wow. Just had one of the sausage rolls the cafe downstairs makes. Frickin’ delicious. Light, crispy, flaky pastry and toasty, fresh spiced mince. I’d even be OK with eating it without sauce – and as any true Aussie knows, a sausage roll without sauce is madness.
Y U TEASE US WITH THINGS WE CANNOT HAVE?!
Well… u can haz sossage roll… come to the Gabba and let me know! I’ll come down and shout you one. 🙂
When I eventually make it to a Brisbane meat I’ll hold you to that.
Dammit man, you’re making me hungry.
I had a muffin and coffee before – felt relatively full – read that and now I’m hungry again. 🙁
And now I want another coffee, thanks man. At least that’s something I can get at home without having to go down the street to a bakery though :p
And now I want to go home. And pass by a bakery on the way. 😛
Sausage roll at this time of the morning! Now that’s madness!
Mrs Tigs made the best sausage rolls I’ve had in ages a month or so ago.
Pregnant women like it if you ask them to cook you things they can’t really eat don’t they?
HUNGIEEEEE
Fuck, I haven’t had a good sausage roll in years and now I’m really hungry for one. I doubt there’s a good one in a 5km radius from my office though. 🙁
Not even sure if it’s still there but the sparkling cafe on Collins opposite transport house used to do really good ones
That’s too far away.
And also I already have my lunch fixings for today in the fridge at work and they’ll spoil if I don’t eat them 🙁
So the Dell mouse that was on my computer was a weird bulbous shape, and for whatever reason the middle click doesn’t register. There’s a fix for it that involves downloading some drivers, but when I go to install it there’s some kind of error and it fails.
My friend found me a replacement one, but it’s a wireless mouse. And it’s small, length-wise, so there’s nothing to rest my palm on and it feels weird. Also there’s no back/forward buttons.
Can’t decide which is the lesser evil.
@shane got to you too? I didn’t think he could afford to pay people to plug his books for him :p
Best mouse ever, which I’ve used for the last 15 odd years is the MS IntelliMouse 1.1!
Mainly due to the 2 extra buttons for tabbed browsing. And also because it’s symmetrical so you can use it with both hands. Please don’t draw any conclusions from the last two sentences.
@shane @mrtaco
I guess one could say that you’re… well equipped.
I loved my IntelliMouse Explorer. Such a nice piece of hardware. Mine ended up dying though, the sensor stopped working accurately. 🙁 Lasted nearly a decade though.
Replaced it years ago with a Logitech one that had similar buttons and stuff, and used that thing to death, eventually it got a problem with the left button where it would register double-clicks a lot of the time and that made doing stuff in Illustrator a pain in the ass, so I replaced it with another identical one.
At work I still use an old Logitech MX Revo, even though the battery is starting to die and I’ve used it so much that I’ve rubbed away the rubberized grips on the sides. I actually had two, I used one at home for an extended period but I was getting issues with that one so I swapped back to the old faithful Logitech.
For a while at home I had a Razer Naga but it was an absolute piece of shit in terms of build quality, gave up the ghost on me within about 6 months of buying it and never worked 100% anyway. It was great for MMOs (felt almost required for SWTOR with all its skills) but shit for anything else really. Put me off Razer products.
I’ve got the Revo too! Awesome mouse with a ton of features/buttons. And I like the weighted scroll wheel.
I’m now using a $25 SteelSeries GW2 mouse which I picked up from JB at a clearance. Awesome mouse. http://www.kotaku.com.au/2012/08/the-official-guild-wars-2-mouse-and-headset-are-freaking-adorable/
Hey, Mikey T!
Yo yo! 😀
I find the scroll wheel a bit annoying so I always turn off that crazy scroll stuff and have it act like a normal wheel where if i press it, it acts as a middle click. But it’s a really nice mouse. Good weight and solid construction and it sits in the hand really nicely.
Besides if you’re doing the dirty deed with the other hand. 😛
@mrtaco wasn’t real all along! He’s actually the protagonist of a harem comedy written by award-winning author Shane W. Smith.
He can’t, but that’s ok. Because it’s Christmas In Not-Quite-July apparently, everyone’s getting stuff for free 😛
Gloryhammer did a live video for the Unicorn Invasion Of Dundee from their Australian tour.
http://youtu.be/g5K0COTiKec
I was there for some of that, it’s hard to tell exactly what parts except for during the solo when the guitarist is standing on a glowing cube with two guys from Lagerstein behind him. I was definitely there for that. The Sunshine Coast venue had these glowing cube tables in the VIP area off to the side and the guitarist ran over to do his solo on them. 😀
Aw the bass player has fluoro yellow bass strings I want such!
So had a co op session of Saints Row IV with @rize last night, and it ended up being a lot of fun!
Seriously that game is all sorts of bonkers!
makes it more fun when you’re an overweight fat guy that constantly sounds like he has been inhaling Helium! SQUEEKY VOICE FTW!
We ended up spending a bit too long just kicking people down the street… I managed to get the police chasing us by doing a cartwheel over a chick and then hurled her into the windscreen of an oncoming cop car…
…
That game is everything wrong with modern games… and it’s glorious!
Playing SRIV on PS3 atm, so much fun
I still have to finish that, if you’re up for some co op over the weekend hit me up,
Mine’s a secondhand copy, so no co-op pass
But I could be tempted…
Reading the reviews on steam for train simulator and some of it is amusing. You think you have problems with games but how can they compete the the horrendous issues such as
The one time I loaded it up and played it took me 20 minutes to figure out how to start the train and get it moving, I got a speeding fine and missed a station then the game kicked me with an admonishing message.
Yet to play again.
CHOO CHOO MOTHERFUCKER
@redartifice
Hey Red, not sure if you already bought it all but CK2 is flash sale so the DLC may have a bigger discount for the next 8 hours or so
Yeah, checked it out, the one bit of DLC I’m really after is still full price.
Bought it anyway, bugger it.
Quiet here today.
@spaghett’s last song played game!
Rock and Roll Suicide – David Bowie
Night witches – Sabaton
My Favourite Game – The Cardigans
Freak Like Me – Halestorm
Seems fitting..
Thirty One & Sevens – I Killed The Prom Queen
No One Knows – QOTSA
dat riff
Problem – Ariana Grande ft. Iggy Azalea
Fall Of The Eternal Winter – Twilight Force
Blackout City (feat. Anamanaguchi) – BIT.TRIP RUNNER OST
Couple Days Off – Huey Lewis And The News.
Goat simulator on special \o/
Might have to scrounge around the money box for one last purchase on Steam \o/
Has anyone here actually played it? looks amazing in Co op
Last night I realised one of the purposes of the Steam Summer sale (with regards to cards): they were trialling a new system for buying and selling Steam cards.
From the looks of it, all cards are now processed in the same manner that the sale cards were. I could explain this, but you’re better off reading it for yourself.
Ahhh so they have rolled out put and call on all cards now
Interesting but really means that you can’t get the bargains any more. Sometimes it was nice to see somebody just dumping their cards for 5 cents. Will be interesting to see how this affects the market. Then again I think there was scripted sites setup doing this sort of thing anyway or at least tracking it so I guess it is just leveling the playing field
Decided to join Steam as I’ll be getting a gaming PC later this year and might pick up a few bargains so I actually have games for said PC, I do have a PC currently it’s just a steaming pile of crap. Now to figure out how this all works.
Steam is a big hole you throw money into and sometimes, when the planets align, you might have enough free time between the 3 jobs you’re working to maintain the habit, to play one of the 3,848 games you “own”.
well, that’s the plan, currently my inventory is empty, I’ll have to remedy this before the sales are over. On that note when do the sales end?
The 30th I believe
But remember some things are only on sale for 8 hour flash sales or 24 hours for the dailies
Oh I’m sure that situation can be fixed :p
*sends friend request*
you guys are steam ninjas, I have friend requests and I haven’t put up my details yet.
You are gunna get smashed with games, son.
Smashed.
I better get some credit on my account to counter gift 😛
Oh my god, a new Steam user! Finally there’s someone we can give those Portal and Half Life copies that Valve constantly bundles with everything. \o/
P.S. Do you have Terraria? It will run on crappy PCs. And I have a spare copy and I can’t give it away because literally everyone on Steam that wants Terraria has Terraria.
haha, I don’t wanna be a moocher already 😛
I have Terraria on ps3.
Confession: I have not played Portal or Half Life *braces self*
Do you have any of the Far Cry games?
If not, you now have FC1, 2, 3, and Blood Dragon.
Have fun!
Neither have I.
*braces self*
EDIT: Actually, I’ve played Portal 2
We’ll have to fix that. I’ve watched a lot of Half Life being played and it looked great,
A friend let me play through a bit of Black Mesa (the HD mod remake) and it was difficult.
I think I did it in co-op with a friend once, it was good fun.
@jimu loves free games
Hm. So Hironobu “The Gooch” Sakaguchi and his moustache are going to be announcing a new game project at Japan Expo in Paris next week. I wonder how far along they are with whatever it is. I thought he’d basically bowed out of being a game designer after The Last Story because he thought it was time to let new people with new ideas come in, but I’m happy to hear he’s doing something new, even though nothing he’s been involved with since FF8 has really clicked solidly with me.
The really curious thing though will be what platform their stuff ends up on. Mistwalker were a weird company really, since I think they had some Microsoft funding initially, so you got Lost Odyssey and Blue Dragon on 360. Then things went weird and they went to Nintendo. So… Xbox One? Maybe Wii U? Multiplatform? Very curious.
I’m thinking it’s not Xbox One, because I think if it was that Microsoft would have trotted him out on stage at E3.
The…. Gooch?
My son’s classroom was getting cleared today for some floorwork getting done so I didn’t bother sending him to school as they weren’t doing anything but killing time on the last day of term.
I’ve since realised I made a terrible mistake. I can’t play Fallout: New Vegas with him home!
So you see Master Strange, this is how we explode the head of the shop keeper because he had lots of laser weapons we wanted.
I figured if I just stayed away from township kind of places I could play, but then I remembered
the Legion keeps sending assassins after me because I’m currently systematically destroying them. 😛Ok so modern cinema just died a little bit more with the announcement of Pacific Rim (job) 2. I can’t say the name without adding “job”….
Seems that for some reason the internet loves PC(j) but hates Transformers. I find them both completely terrible for almost the exact same reasons.
I’ve written about my hate for PC(j) multiple times but I’m happy to continue debating it some more.
So question: Why do people like Pacific Rim (job) and not transformers?
Both have terrible stories, terrible characters and both are built solely to have big fighting robots and explosions. Only difference is that one of these doesn’t also destroy childhood memories
/discuss
1) Pacific Rim wasn’t crass or dumb. Transformers has the humour of a 12 year old wannabe bro.
2) Strong female character, with her own arc
3) Idris Elba
4) Guillermo del Toro is a much, much better visual stylist than Michael Bay, and the design of the robots and monsters was really cool
5) It had giant robots fighting giant monsters, which is excatly what was promised. Delivered in spades
6) Idris Elba
7) Ron Perlman
8) A robot hit a monster WITH A SHIP
9) It didn’t make me feel dumber for having watched it, Transformers did
10) Idris Elba
This guy gets it.
Additionally, Pacific Rim was dumb but straight forward and not trying to be more. Transformers is a confusing mess.
This guy knows what’s upIt delivered on everything it promised and Idris Elba in spades!
you left out the part where the giant robot was using shipping containers as knuckle irons, but i’ll forgive you for that!
So basically Pacific Rim (job) was good because it set the bar incredibly low?
It was good because it was supposed to be a really bad, low quality action flick?
And you know what, I don’t even remember Idris Elba in the movie. Was he the general guy?
I didn’t find the female lead particularly strong except for the one (non-robot) fight scene when they are training.
Ron Perlman’s minor role doesn’t do anything to save the movie and is actually one of the more comedic/ridiculous things.
Also about it being dumb…. oh god where do I start. Analogue robots, push to talk buttons, giant sword we forgot about till we’re 12 KMs up in the air, lets scrap these super successful robots and build a stupid massive wall…. the list goes on.
I agree it went down a different route than the shitty humor of transformers but that hardly makes it good.
BTW I’m not defending transformers here…. they are both terrible movies. It just sound like people think it’s awesome because it’s better than transformers. That makes it less shit … not good.
Look man, you asked.
I’m not saying Pacific Rim was high art. It was a fun popcorn movie, with cool robots, and from one of my favourite directors. It was remarkably unpretentious about it, and I felt as a film it achieved what it set out to do.
Don’t get me wrong. I appreciate your answer. I asked the question because I wanted to know.
I like lots of Del Torro’s other work. I just find it facilitating that people defend and love Pacific Rim (job) by celebrating mediocrity.
I feel like “I just wanted to see robots fight monsters and it did that” is an excuse not a reason (not attacking you just speaking generally).
Why can’t a movie be good AND have robots fighting monsters? I actually think PC(j) had a lot of potential. I think it could have been a great movie… but there was just so much wrong with it that it turns into a “popcorn movie”.
I hear that phrase so much these days when people defend terrible movies. Why is it acceptable now? Why does it have to be just a “popcorn movie” instead of a “good movie”???
Same really goes for Transformers. There’s nothing wrong with the concept… just the execution. There’s absoluteness no reason why Transformers couldn’t be a great movie…. It could. But it turned out to not be.
Maybe it’s just me. I like explosions as much as the next guy, but I’ve never found myself to say “I want to go spend $20 to see a shit movie with lots of explosions”. I actually have friends like this – direct quote “I don’t care about the story, I just want to see giant robots.” Maybe I just don’t get that mentality… I want a movie not an action trailer.
I guess peoples definition of what a “good” movie is is very different… a “good” movie to me is something that’ll entertain me, eg. “Popcorn” movie… so i guess from my perspective, yes, Pacific Rim is a good movie…
I kind of agree. I wanted to love Pacific Rim but didn’t. 🙁
Much more excited about del Toro’s other stuff like The Strain TV series and Crimson Peak.
The strain looks pretty cool. I’ve only read the first book but looks like it’s hewing very closely
Pacific rim was created with the concept of giant robots fighting giant monsters and everything in the film works towards that.
Transformers tries to be a serious film at time and want to tell a story that is pretty shit really
There actually isn’t a huge amount of explosions in pacific rim, but yes the destruction is there.
The human characters are there but when you get to the real part of the movie (giant fighty fight) they aren’t part of it, they are contain within the robots
The actual fights are good, there is a clear differentiation between who is fighting and the difference between the fights. So much better than any fight the transformers has had
They don’t have the robots trying to be hip and cool
Oh gods, this.
Except the one with 3 hands that does backflips and breakdance fighting.
let’s not forget that the whole motion of controlling the robots is multiplayer dance dance revolution
Isn’t that like saying “this car is awesome because it has 4 wheels and goes forward. It doesn’t do anything else, but it goes forward really good” ???
Kind of and I see your point, I am not going to say it is a piece of great cinema but it is enjoyable.
More along the lines of this is a train. It will go along these tracks and get you from this station to that station. It isn’t going to turn and it will only leave at these time not when you want. If you want to board the train then that is what you get, no more, no less.
It’s a train and if you just want to go from A to B then it is a great train. If you want the train to be a car then you are going to be disappointed.
But if you want a train to be quite and comfortable and luxurious? I think I’m more about comparing a good train to a shit train rather than a train to a car….
I guess my point is that “good” is different to “enjoyable”
Everyone can enjoy a shit movie. I enjoy plenty of terrible movies, but I don’t pretend they are some thing they’re not. I don’t pretend that they are good.
See that is where we look at thing differently. I would consider PR to be the comfortable and luxurious train. Trains being the action movie analogue.
Going to see a movie I want to be entertained, I want to enjoy it. If I enjoy it then it is a good movie, if I don’t it isn’t. I am not overly critical of movies and things like cinematography and framing don’t really interest me and unless it looks bad isn’t something that I focus on. I also tend to take things at face value and not over think them so the fact that they build a wall and scrapped the program I just accept, governments do stupid things all the time.
I would consider many “good” movies to be bad, simply because they deal with content matter I don’t care about or just have nothing happening. How artistic or well shot something is matters not a bit to me.
I just want to be entertained and the more entertained I am the better the movie. Well this isn’t the whole story, I want to feel during the movie, so if that is pure enjoyment at something like PR or the feels in something like Iron Giant then I’m happy.
I’m probably just over thinking it and expecting too much. I just can’t help but think how much better it would have been if it was so ridiculous.
Someone, somewhere actually had to sit down and write the line “Don’t worry, we’ll use my robot, it’s analog”. Who does that? Who thought that was a good idea?
Maybe I just break down movies too much. I’m all for entertainment but I guess I’m just not entertained by the same kind of things. Perhaps this is why I don’t like slapstick comedy.
I think you are but then again people want different things. Pretty much the same as games, what some people like others don’t. People tell me that super meat boy is an amazingly good game but it doesn’t push my buttons so it is average at best for me. Same as the entire bit trip series.
Also if you went in with expectations that is was a good movie and expected the dialogue and story you associated with that term and were after more than just the fighty fight I can see why you would be disappointed.
Everything that Guillermo Del Toro does is gold… GOLD!
Fuck. Figures. One game I’ve been waiting for and it goes in sale while I’m at work. Stupid steam.
Which game?
Which game?
Which game?
YOU RUINED IT PIXEL, GOSH!
=PEDIT: I word spell good.
YOU HAPPY NOW NOB?
😛 gotta love the posting time is even the same!Which game?
Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon?
I’ll guess Crusader Kings 2, pretty sure he already has blood dragon
I know he digs the soundtrack, so stands to reason he probably already has it!
Maybe Alice? 😀
Dammit @redartifice that wasn’t what I meant but that was the game.
I should have known better than to say anything.
You are a gentleman and a scholar sir.
Don’t thank me when you’ve spent 100 hours and you can now recite all of the modes of european succession by rote.
PrimogenitureUltimogeniture
Gavelkind
Tanistry
Investiture
Seniority
Elective/Open
And the gender modes
Agnatic
Agantic- Cognatic
Absolute Cognatic
Have you thought about installing the Steam app on your phone…?
Ugh, I got invited to grab lunch with some of my old work colleagues. Thus begins the adventure of “Nob tries to act like a normal person”
Bring balloons and make everyone balloon animals… that’s what normal people do right?
Well I can make both eels and snakes …
What about dead worms? i can make dead worms!
Robert Frost!
“Run you pigeons, it’s Robert Frost!”
I’ve had lunch with Strange on Monday and Freeze on Wednesday and didn’t perfect the impersonation of a normal person on either occasion. :'(
Worst hermit.
I think if you look closely, I’ve never once called myself a hermit!
No, Hermitdc, Of the Year of the Hermit blog.
Should be Socialbutterflydc.
Look at Mr Social here.
We’re kicking you out of the Hermit Alliance.
Can I get a promotion in the Hermit Alliance? I think I’ve done 4 social things this year, the rest of the time I hid in my cave only emerging to glare at young people on my lawn.
At first I was against it, but then this line won me over.
I’d be offended if you tried to be a “normal” person. I don’t like these “normal” people, I like you!
BACK OFF HE’S MINE!
Now now, there’s no need to fight, there’s plenty of @dc for everybody.
I dunno. He’s pretty scrawny.
Oh gods, just had a heart attack!
just noticed $1800 being debited out of my bank account, now I renewed car insurance yesterday but that was only $650 with a new insurance company… checked the details and it’s the bloody old car insurance company that has automatically renewed… now to call them up and try to get my money back… this has essentially halved my entire budget for the month XD
…
well shit, good thing i didn’t spend money on steam today 😛
Oh man, that sucks.
Hope you get onto your bank and company quick smart
D: Glad you caught it, though!
Sheet yeah! Should be OK though, i should be able to get it back… i hope! 😛
Good luck man, stupid direct debits.
Yeah, just ring up your old insurance company and tell them that you don’t need the policy anymore as you’re with a different company. They should give you a full refund, minus however many days you were into the new policy.
Good luck man.
Yeah just did that, but because the money is still sitting as an authorisation they have to wait until the money goes through and then refund it, which is estimated for monday… we’ll have to wait and see /o\
I thought you were going to say that you’d spent $1800 on Steam for a second 😛
I freaking wish! XD
^_^ Thanks @crazyguy1990 . You are equal parts crazy and awesome.
Edit: That is a hell of a lot of hours of gaming in one pack 😀
There’s a reason we call him crazybuy
Have fun with it! 😀
oh I will, *flips off nearest enemy & reloads quad barrelled shotgun with incendiary rounds*
Blood Dragon I assume? I played through it (all collectibles and bases) earlier this week. Loved every second of it. EVERY.DAMN.SECOND!
Such a brilliant game.
wish I could upvote more than once 😀
I wish they’d do a full length Far Cry in that style. Would be so good.
I read an interview with Michael Biehn a while ago and he is totally up for it, he said he’d do it in an instant if approached. He mustn’t play the games though because he was confounded that fans kept approaching him about BD but no one ever mentions Colonial Marines to him. I really want a full length one too, maybe with a little less pink haze though.
yeah I have played it on PS3, but I will definitely have a second romp through it, It was one of my favorites.
I haven’t got very far into it on 360, but I absolutely loved the opening section.
Being on the chopper, firing that mounted gun with Little Richard playing was just freaking awesome.oh, you’re in for a treat, I was yelling triumphantly at my tv during the last section, would recommend beating it. Also bit of advice, do story missions, I did all the side quests before finishing the game but they give you an amazing weapon in the last missions, I was a bit sad that I didn’t have much left to kill with it.
omigosh, thanks @tigerion, I’m gonna ride an onion and kill all the saurs, that’s how you play that one right? Never played Magika either, excite ^_^
Friend invite sended!
JB HiFi is so awesome. Just picked up Wolf of WallStreet, Wolf Creek 2 Director’s Cut & American Hustle for a little over 60 bucks. Turns out they were not $33 each like the stickers had me believe but much cheaper and then got 20% off the sub total. Which was nice.
The bloke pointed out Wolf of Wall Street was something like 20 bucks with discount and I could think was, I paid that much to see it at the cinema..
Guys guys guys, just got an E-mail from EB saying that they have a PS4 bundle on sale. You get the console, FIFA 14, Battlefield 4, and Watch Dogs all for $499.
Shit! Just realized that’s only if you trade in a sliim PS3 or 360, price without trade is $599. Typical EB >:I
Edit: WTF @virus__’s post before mine was a pageget, now mine is, How the hell did that happen?
Interesting, I wonder if they would be willing to swap the games around for different ones.
The bundle might be regulated by Sony so EB get a rebate from Sony for including those games so you can’t just swap them out.. Only way would be to trade them back in and i’d be guessing at least one game is a download code.
I dunno man, 3 games for an extra 50 bucks is a pretty sweet deal in comparison. It’s like 200 dollar discount if you were to buy it all separately. Plus you can always trade games back in too, so that’s okay.
Aw man, that’s BS. I want ma page get back!
Steam Question
If something is in someone’s wish list they don’t own it right? Are they taken out of your list if you acquire them or do you have to go and remove it manually?
It leaves your list if you have it.
Or it should. I remember when I was being Santa Negs during the Christmas sale, looking at people’s wishlists, then attempting to gift them something and being told that they actually had it. Maybe this got fixed?
Yeah, it’s definitely not perfect. I was gifting something the other day, and it appeared with like “This person has this game on their wishlist!” and “This person already owns this game!” in the little box thingy when you’re trying to choose who deserves your pain and misery. A bit odd.
Often the issue there is that someone else gifted them that game recently.
Happened to me the other night- in between New Vegas going on sale and @transientmind buying it for me I already grabbed it
@gutsoup I logged a support ticket with Valve to get a refund for the fail-sale gift to Red, and received one within the next day.
I think the main crossover there was that they received multiple gifts, because people around these parts are too damn generous. It won’t show you if someone has been sent that wish list item as a gift, pending acceptance.
Either that or they got it right as you gifted it, @steve-o_the_deve-o went to gift me Torchlight 2 last night but for whatever reason It said I already had it even though I didn’t because that morning it was in my wish list
cool, just wanted to make sure.
The only time this hasn’t happened as far as I’m aware is with some of the retail games or with humble bundle type things that you redeem.
If you have something on your wishlist and acquire it outside of steam and activate it, then it will not always be removed from your wishlist. But as far as I know the gifting to somebody is totally accurate and up to date.
Yeah this! @gutsoup
Buying or receiving games straight through Steam has always removed it from my wishlist, but when I bought and redeemed (through a code) purchases from other sites like Amazon, GMG, and Humble Bundle, those wishlisted games remained on my wishlist.
It isn’t too bad since most people gift through Steam anyway and it prevents you from gifting games to people who already own it. Just make sure to clean up your wishlist every now and then 😀
A while ago Humble Bundle started linking purchases straight to Steam accounts with no code input necessary. I have no idea if this will clear wishlisted games or not since I haven’t tested it out. Maybe I’ll try next time 😛
There’s also the possibility that versions of a game from different regions will have a different ID number. For example the version of saints row 4 on our marktekplace is the low violence version and may have a different ID number so if that was on your wishlist and someone in America gifted you the version from their marketplace, it might not get removed automatically because of that.
Also there’s the issue that steam doesn’t know what you own on other services. I looked at far cry 3 and was wondering why it wasn’t saying I owned it, I looked it my games list and was rather worried to not see it there before I felt really stupid after remembering I actually bought it on greenmangaming and got a uplay code rather than a steam one… I used to have a shortcut to it in my games list which is what made me keep thinking it was a steam game but then steam went through a phase of deleting all my manual shortcuts and I just couldn’t be bothered restoring them.
How awesome would it be if Ubisoft and Studio Ghibli collaborated to do a game in the UbiArt framework? Pretty awesome, I’m thinking. And probably a lot cheaper and with a lot less jarring transitions from cinematic to game than Ni no Kuni had.
And maybe actually good, too.that would be pretty amazing.
Have you tried Valiant Hearts yet?
No, but I have it. I see from the Kotaku review that it’s about 7 hours so I’m going to try and knock it out tonight and tomorrow, then Bravely Default (because MQFT last night said so) and then I’m not sure.
Actually here’s a discussion question for TAY: what other groups, studios, properties etc. would make for rad games with Ubisoft’s 2D UbiArt stuff?
Ghost in the Shell,
after you mentioned Ghibli all I can think of is how great it would be for games based on anime.
But which Ghost in the Shell? The Mamoru Oshii films, the Shirow manga, Stand-Alone Complex, or the recent super-sterile boring music prequels?
… Probably Stand Alone Complex, just because if it was based on a movie it might be too short.
I was meaning more in terms of presentation style. I reckon you could put together a pretty good action platformer in UbiArt for GitS.
yeah an action/ puzzle platformer would be great, could even throw in some Metal Slug style Tachikoma bonus levels.
Xombie!
Discworld
Sandman
Was thinking the Riddick series based on the animated movie, but not sure the play style would work
If we were to get more Riddick games I’d want the same guys (who are now MachineGames) to work on them. Escape from Butcher Bay was better than it had any right to be.
You mentioning Sandman made me think of comics and that inevitably made me think of Batman. The animated series from the 90s, with that stark art style with the use of big solid areas of black and white and red.
You could rightly argue that the Arkham games are basically the Batman Animated series in game form, and I wouldn’t argue. But a game with that specific presentation is something you actually could do with UBIart from what I’ve seen, and I think that’d be awesome.
Yeah there was a number of comic book type things I thought of flowing out of sandman. Actually looking at it most of the options for getting the telltale treatment would probably work well. But comic wise there are a number that could work. I think the group based ones would work better in a different medium, thing like x-men or avengers.
Others like 100 bullets and maybe even V for vendetta could work much better.
Agree with the Riddick comment, that was an amazing game, Dark Athena was good but butcher bay was amazing
What would be rad is if the UBIart stuff was able to be used for more than platformers. Even though Child of Light is technically kind of an RPG, it’s hard not to see the fact that the engine was built for Rayman, and I suspect that it is a bit of a limiting factor.
I would like to see what The Last of Us would of come out looking like
GOD DAMMIT @evilmonkey!
you barely have any money anymore mang! you shouldn’t have…
But thank you, you are a true champion!
There may or may not be hugs included whenever we meat! that’ll be sure to make your wife and son more confortable with internet people right? 😛
See that’s where you’re wrong, got paid double this week. You’re awesome mang.
I’M BACK BABY!
Holy crap, thanks guys ( @pixel_the_ferret_viking & @evilmonkey )
I played Limbo once, it was hard. Will have to go and finish it now 😀
I’ve never played Dishonoured (GOTY Edition Too)
Limbo should be in everyones library! it’s such a beautifully done game! and very eerie!
Enjoy mang \o/
I thought the same, but I can’t bring myself to playing it, cuz giant creepy spiders /o\ *shudder* NOPE!
There’s only one and it dies a horrible horrible death!You big baby
The worst spiders ever are in Dark messiah *shudder*I dunno, i nearly brown stained when the first huge spider came down from the roof in Skyrim 😛
Nope i stand by dark messiah. There movements are all wrong just like real spiders and that sound. Normally I’m ok with spiders in games because they don’t seem real enough or are just clearly not spiders. But these things. They were even small than giant spiders in games but still massive. Small enough that you had to look down to see them but still a god darn knee high spider.
Oh and the spider cave things you are walking through, eeekkkk
I still haven’t played it, but love the art direction. At the same time I think it might be too disturbing for my liking. :S
It has it’s moments for sure… It’s not a long game either (i think i topped out at 3 hours, taking my time with it) but i loved every moment… it’s more eerie then full on scary
Seriously thank you! did you get it too so we can be goats together! \o/ 😛
Yup, just bought it.
GOAT BUDDIES! \o/
I love vidya games, one minute you could be flying through space at light speed piloting a Spaceship, the next you could be attaching your tongue to things as a goat, most diverse medium ever 😀
Yeah pretty much! Last night i was shooting zombies and then flinging people across the city with my super powers! tonight i’ll be licking things! ALL THE THINGS!… then play a game about a goat!
I might join you tonight when I get home from work.
Its raining Gifts! hallelujah its raining gifts! I cant remember the rest of the song!
Had a terrible moment where I had to have a stern talk to myself. I was reading this post about men in the sewing/quilting world and what they have to put up with (http://www.sewmccool.com/men-who-sew/) but I almost didn’t read it because at the start it was talking about “we” as if ALL women sewists were like that so I immediately went on the defensive because that’s not, nor has it ever been how I think. Anyway, I finished reading it and I’m glad I did because there were some interviews with some men on what they have to go through. And then I realised.
I was being one of those “not ALL men” dickheads. 😛
It’s interesting to see how gender politics play out so similarly in other hobbies/industries.
At least you realised it
I’ve always thought it as a terrible wording problem. The not all men people are reacting to people that say all men who then gets any because they don’t mean all men. Same thing with you there. Too much generalisations involves where specific examples aren’t enough.
It’s confusing as all buggery and why I stay out of it.
I spent the entirety of my high school career having “avoid generalisations” drilled into my mind. Sure, it helped that I took two subjects that involved essay writing (English and Drama), but I don’t understand how so many people can write sweeping generalisations and not want to strangle themselves when they re-read their own work.
Then again, I always want to strangle myself upon proofreading (thus why I don’t do it), so I could just be projecting.
That was a very interesting article. The truth is that men and women bring different ideas and attitudes and perspectives and the most interesting stuff happens when we work together. All men groups can become too aggressive, all women groups can become too cliquey and exclusive. You can see it in social groups and industries everywhere. My own immediate experience is with Playgroup. I was at one that was all mothers. It was, quite frankly boring, bitchy and unfriendly to anyone who didn’t fit the mould. I changed to one that had a much bigger group that was a mix of mums, nannies, grandmothers and dads. Much more open, friendly, creative, active and interesting for everyone.
It’s nice when the pattern clicks together and you realise you’re looking at the same thing from a different perspective.
lol you’re not exactly a typical girly sewing girl though. I wouldn’t put you in the same category as my mum or sister when it comes to sewing. And I don’t mean skills wise, but more mentality. I think it’s the Metal Mum in you that makes you stand out from the crowd 🙂 \m/
Heh, some interesting lines in there. Definitely related to the comment on it all being geometry and maths, that’s what I love most about doing costumes 😛 And mentioning the appeal to the engineering side, it reminded me of just how strange it seemed a few months ago when learning to use the sewing machine that it was always considered a woman’s job, what with how much you need to know about the inner workings of such a complex machine in order to be able to adjust and fix it throughout the course of regular use – when that’s exactly the stereotype of something that’s supposed to be “for men”.
Valiant Hearts is so awesome that it’s probably gonna be that game along the lines of Spec Ops: The Line which I hype up so much that no amount of goodness could ever live up to the expectations. IT’S AMAAAAZING.
I reckon I’ll pick it up, but I’ll wait till the last day of the sale, in case they put it on sale.
I keep thinking about it today, can’t wait to go home and keep playing.
I suspect I’m annoying people on Steam list. Get into the game. Play for half hour. Get out. Three seconds later I get back into the game again. 😀
I doubt that annoys anyone… i’ve turned those notifications off entirely XD…
The most fun part is you can always spot the people modding a bethesda game
*enter Fallout:NV*
*exit*
*enter Fallout:NV*
*exit*
*enter Fallout:NV*
*exit*
all within a couple of minutes 😛
Pez trying to play Brink was the greatest thing ever.
Wait what happened?
this sounds like an entertaining anecdote and i must hear it!
There’s really not much to it. There was just a constant reminder on the bottom right of my screen that Pez was, in fact, opening Brink. And hey, ten seconds later, can you guess what Pez was doing? If you guessed “opening Brink” then you’ve won a cookie (must be collected from my house). And fifteen seconds later, as you could nearly hear his cries of anguish through the internet, you got to watch him attempt to open it yet again.
Lol poor guy! hate it when that happens 😛
Was that you last night? someone kept entering Fallout:NV because it kept coming up while I was trying to fix steam
I felt like this year’s Spec Ops: The Line was Wolfenstein.
As much as I enjoyed Wolfenstein, I don’t know where all this critical acclaim has come from. It was a good shooter but I didn’t think it was mind blowingly excellent or any thing. XD
I think the diverse nature of TAY has proven time and time again that things appeal differently to different people. 😀
You didn’t pick up on the subtleties of the story? Or the fact that a fucking Wolfenstein game even had a story in the first place, let alone a really damned good one with excellent delivery and near flawless execution?
How about the fact that the developer actually leans into the idea that Wolfenstein is a game that belongs to a different era, and that it feels out of place and time compared to contemporary games with a much stronger focus on plot and narrative? By making the game set in the 1960s but starring a square-jawed meathead soldier who knows nothing but brutally killing Nazis, they actually are making a commentary on the franchise itself. He’s fifteen years out of date, no longer relevant in the world he finds himself in. He’s not needed. But he finds a way to adapt, a light to guide himself through and become relevant again in this new world.
The inner monologues they added for BJ are awesome too. They add so much interesting depth to him. The stuff where you’re going through the sewers underwater and he’s comparing how dark and cold it is to other times he’d been submerged in deep water in the past, for example. The biggest thing though is that at no point do you ever feel like his motivations are different from your motivations as the player. You want to kill some dudes, and so does he. The narrative never suffers from the dissonance that other story-heavy games like Uncharted for example end up having, where the character in the cutscenes and the character in the gameplay don’t mesh up well (Nathan Drake is a swashbuckling, loveable roguish everyman who becomes a cold-blooded mass murderer every five minutes).
There were also a lot of interesting touches everywhere. Some truly shocking moments, some bits with lots of feels. Did you listen to the bits with Anya reading her cousin’s diary to you?
Did you realize it’s actually her own diary?That game is incredibly well put together. It’s fun to play, but there’s so much substance to it. Everything works. All the parts mesh. It has a real sense of atmosphere and place. Deathshead, despite his dumb name, is a terrifying and fascinating villain (and as an extra mind-blower – he’s voiced by Dwight Schultz, who you may remember as ‘Howling Mad’ Murdock, the A-Team’s pilot).
Not saying it’s a bad game at all. I really dug it. Just didn’t dig it on the same level as everyone else it seems.
It occurs to me with Wolfenstein that I might’ve been on the other side of the D.C. hype factor. What happens when a game is hyped up crazy by those around you and you build it up to something else in your head, etc. 😀
Worse is when you hype something up yourself and then it turns out to be shit.
Wolfenstein was great though and I didn’t expect it to be. It had no right to be as good as it was.
Probably just the, “Hey wow… this didn’t suck! This ALWAYS sucks!” surprise factor.
Kind of like how people utterly crucify games/movies that they were expecting to be amazeballs which turned out to merely be adequate.
I’ll get it when it’s cheap 😛
I can’t even add it to my wishlist. Mum’s games have filled it.
Don’t worry about it being in your wishlist, worry about it being in your game list.
You’re welcome.
Crazybuy strikes again!
Pretty much
Urgh, your infectious hype is testing my resolve.
I’m on full bank account lockdown, but now all I want to do is by this game :'(
Must. Resist. Temptations…
PLAY IT AT FREEZES PLACE! 😛
But I want to play it noooooow! >:(
*crosses arms stubbornly*
You completely ruined Spec Ops for me >:|
(is what you think we all think!)
Totes wrong though. I never would have played the game if it wasn’t for you and the other TAY praise :D. Was still good though!
My computer blue screened twice last night.
I thought I was part of the master race, dammit!
Blue is still a race.
BSODs are a test of devotion to the Master Race, inflicted on those whose tithe is less generous or frequent than the machine-god demands.
You will FAIL that test if you take solace in the inferior embrace of the console heathen.
The only way to redeem yourself is pay tribute to the machine god in the form of ludicrously expensive upgrades.
(Bonus points if you end up prostrating yourself, cheeks wet with tears of frustration, as you beg, plead, threaten for the infernal thing to ‘just fucking work already’. The machine-god loves that.)
Any clues as to why in the event log or the likes? Perhaps try Bluescreenview to check the dump file if it succeeded?
Just ran Bluescreenview, looks like they were both to do with ntoskrnl.exe and there seem to be plenty of resources on Google to try and address that. Cheers.
So after having a good day yesterday, I felt like a train wreck this morning. Ended up having to put myself back to bed and sleeping until 1pm
Was it the shooting of all the zombies that did it?
Hope you feel better soon!
I have no idea. I swear, one day my throat is okay, second day everything hurts
Well that sucks! Tea and honey to grease the throat!
home remedies is best remedies \o/
I have lemon and honey herbal tea \o/
That’ll do it! at least your PC is now fixed so you can procrastinate with ALL THE GAMES!
No can do. Cosplay stuff comes first, even when I’m sick.
Oh but procrastination is so much fun! XD
I need your kind of motivation for work, I currently have 0% motivation 😛
I think that having 6 to do means I’m motivated, no matter what. =P
I love Rufus’ stand up, he has helped me through many a tough day at work.
It would seem that I really desperately need a post-lunchtime nap to survive.
I just go “PEACE BITCHEZ” and go home. I don’t know how I used to handle 10-11 hour days at my old job.
I think I’ll wait a while before giving that a try.
I started doing it like two weeks into my current job. It’s fine.
Dear @thecracks
I think I hate you
Thanks for the game
Tigs
^_^
Dammit @crazyguy1990, thanks for King Of Fighters man.
You know I’m totally gonna have to gift you something now right?
Thank you, you fantastic simian! \o/
Damn you @crazyguy1990 *shakes fist* I appreciate it.
You better come to the Pax meat so I can give you cake!
Your fist shaking fills me with warmth.
:3
I think the Saturday tickets are sold out. 🙁
Are you going to Pax at least so I can hunt you down and give you cake?
Yeah, it’ll most likely be on the Sunday.
Isn’t it near the South Warf DFO?
Yup, not far from it. Come the night before and you could attend the meat =D
There’s still tickets for Friday and Sunday I think, I’m seriously considering going. There’s apparently also a meat on Saturday night with Bowling and Karaoke.
Hnnnnnggg if only i could! i really need to talk to my bro-in-law about this, i want to go friday again because 3-day weekend \o/
So… uh… about that whole Mistawalker / Sakaguchi thing, with them announcing a new game at Japan Expo.
Well maybe don’t get too excited. Just looked at the Japan Expo site and Mistwalker’s logo appears alongside Gravity’s on this news. 🙁 Gravity, for those that don’t know, are a Korean company that made a ton of dodgy MMOs, mobile games and so on. They basically made Ragnarok Online then kept making that game. And they’re majority-owned by GungHo now (52% stake). GungHo being the Puzzle & Dragons guys.
Hopefully this announcement will be good, but temper your expectations I think. If GungHo was involved directly I’d have a bit more faith in it since they’re aware that there’s more to games than Mobile and have been investing in proper games as well (eg they own Suda51’s Grasshopper Manufacture now)
Oh this is interesting
Onion dino shooty folks, I just saw the original kickstarter video. I think it is safe to say there is some differences https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/orionprelude/orion-prelude
Isn’t that the game formerly known as Dino D-Day? Or am I getting my mind wires crossed again?
I think Onion: Dino Schadenfraude has gone through so many name changes at this stage it’s hard to keep up XD…
But it would appear Dino D-Day is a different game:
http://store.steampowered.com/app/70000/
Wires crossed. Dino D-day is still available and is nazi vs dinosaurs. This is sci-fi shooty man vs dinosaurs
Pretty much the same level of polish on both games though
Ah. It was Orion: Dino Beatdown or something like that before the name change to shake the bad metacritic score.
Yeah there was something there. There was a name change but the metacritic score remains. So it was probably for of a perception thing and to wipe reviews if people searched for it.
Which is why it has a 34 meta score but (at least in gaming reviews) should be higher
Metacritic should probably get wise to that. Rename a game and suddenly the slate is wiped back to 0? Seems a bit bullshit.
“Players in the 2014 FIFA World Cup are more likely to be bitten by Luis Suarez than a member of the rest of the world’s population is to be bitten by a shark. The chances of being bitten by a Suarez are 1 in 736.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shark_attack
For those of you following the World Cup.
Dude has some massive chompers too, It was hilarious that he was holding his teeth after the incident.
Edit: How funny was it that some dude made $1000 from a $5 bet, he bet Suarez would bite someone during that match.
He’s got the hunger now.
Just got told I have to leave work an hour early.
*performs happy dance*
I’m half way through my day WOOOOOOOOO \o/
*head desk*
I’m sorry 🙁
One day I’ll buy you a cushion for your desk, worried about all this self inflicted head trauma.
Head trauma is best trauma! 😛
One day i might knock a screw loose and then the world will be an insanely fun place, once i can control the drooling and stuff \o/
You wanna play some Magic 2014 this weekend man?
I haven’t played earlier ones so not sure, what’s it like?
Shit, sorry man for some stupid reason I thought I was replying to @pupp3tmast3r. We can totally play if you want though, but be warned, I’m a noob.
lol, you’re noob? I don’t even know what it is properly.
and just got told i have to stay now, way to demotivate your employees jerks.
edit: and got told to leave again, WTF, make up your mind retards.
I use twitter mostly to talk with my friends, etc. When randoms start following me I get crazy tense that I’ve got to change the way I’m using it to appeal to ‘outsiders’ too, then they inevitably unfollow me and I stress about what my twitter account should be. When I get unfollowed it stupidly does hit my self-esteem and I feel like crap. Some days I just feel like deleting it but know I’d just be isolating myself more from friends. :S
Hah, I get people following me because of my If You Are the One tweets and then leave after they realise I don’t talk about it at all between episodes 😛
I have only noticed once that someone unfollowed me. And it was because I think three spam accounts unfollowed me at once, or something.
The former part of your statement is why I like having a private account. If I don’t know someone, they can enjoy not being allowed to follow me. Problem solved.
Hmmm, I just think I accidentally convinced myself why it should be set to private. 😀
You can’t make new friends if you go private!
He doesn’t need new friends.
He has me.
I can’t say I’ve made friends with randoms at all in my entire duration on twitter. 😛
Well… neither have I… 😛
But still!
eh, they unfollow you it’s their loss, they don’t realize what a magnificent being you are and don’t deserve your anecdotes. *nods decisively*
Don’t worry about them. Just be yourself. If they don’t like it. TOUGH.
You can tell when people unfollow? huh never noticed 😛
That’s okay, i wouldn’t want to follow whats going on in my life either if i could avoid it XD
Eh, I think 99% of my tweets are just joining in on conversations, so anyone randomly following just me would see bugger all anyway.
Edit: also why I like the internet handle – I’m there to have interesting conversations, without worrying about managing my image / personal brand / all that professional nonsense that now gets linked with my real name. Joys of working in I.T.
It’s weird when famous people see my Tweets :3
EDIT: Sughly, Notty and I were talking about over the top trailers and one of the developers responded to Sugs’ tweet 😛
Another time one of the Amazing Race contestants responded to our tweets. Luckily we didn’t make fun of them 😀
The weirdest thing was seeing my sister’s tweet because someone famous RT’d.
I geeked out the most when Clint Hocking responded to me and @notoriousr gushing about Chaos Theory.
BEST DAY EVER
Ever since then I’ve been super careful to avoid using searchable names when I complain about reality TV people.
I know they’re reading! I would totally be searching for people talking about me if I was on Survivor or something 😛
Poor Kass must know how horrible I am now.I lost 2 followers for talking about removing all my body hair (specifically scrotal waxing, if I recall). I also gained a follower off that though 😀
I gained a few followers since then, and now I usually just tweet about my hair, bunz, and pecs, and my followers haven’t changed in a while.
I wouldn’t stress about what you tweet about in other words 😛
Just be you, it’s your twitter account after all 😉
Plus I like your tweets, so don’t change please 🙂
“This person looks interesting. I like reading their tweets. I think I’ll follow them with the expectation that their tweets continue to entertain.”
*Follows DC*
“What happened?”
Jerk. :'(
I honestly don’t know how people notice when they get unfollowed. 1/2 of the people on my followers could probably unfollow me before I would realise it has happened. =P
I have absolutely no doubt I’ve been unfollowed by someone at some point because I never use the service and occasionally hold unpopular opinions, but damned if I’d ever know who it was or when it happened.
Also, pretty much the only times I’ve been re-tweeted are when I’ve complimented a product or service. But that’s fine, they deserve it.
Here’s the secret to Twitter: don’t give a fuck.
It’s your account. For you to talk about whatever you like. That’s why there’s follow and unfollow buttons, so if you don’t like what people are talking about, you don’t have to follow them. If people choose to follow you, chances are they’re already interested in you so don’t change for anyone, not even new followers. Just be you. That way you only have people following you who are interested in you, and anyone who doesn’t like the way you use your twitter account can unfollow you and you never have to deal with them. \o/
THIS! So much this! People follow you cos they liked something you said. If they continue to see stuff they like, they’ll stick around, but sometimes, you need to follow someone to get a grasp of the kind of things they tweet about before you know whether or not they actually hold interest. Not giving a fuck is the best way! I care about what I tweet to my followers, but sometimes you need to say what needs to be said, and if people think it’s worthy of unfollowing you, then fuck them. If they were a real friend, or held any interest, they would stay following no matter what you say.
I have a few people on my list like that. I don’t agree with a lot of stuff they say, and more often than not, I dismiss most of their tweets as spam, but occasionally they come up with some real gems. So sometimes, it’s worth wading through the bullshit to find the goodness, other times it’s not. If you were charging people a subscription fee to view your tweets, then I’d be concerned/stressed if they started leaving, but it’s free and people = shit for the most part. Don’t try to understand the actions of others. Just be who you are, and the people who love you will stick by!
You’re in the public space. You’re always gonna get randoms following, then unfollowing. Don’t take it to heart. Only time I freak is when someone I know well unfollows or something, but that’s pretty rare, and often not intentional.
This is the thing that keeps me away from twitter. While most of the stuff I post on here or forums or whatever is technically open for anyone to come and find… it’s still posted within a fairly closed community that will only be frequented by those interested in that community. Whereas things like twitter, that’s just one big huge community for EVERYONE, where it’s likely any old person could come along and look at what I’ve been doing any stuff. That makes me uncomfortable. Hell even when Wingman found out about my online handle and then started stalking out all bits of information about me in an effort to try and find out how old I was, that made me super uncomfortable. Something that shouldn’t have happened, I usually try and keep IRL and the net separated but the waters got muddied there a bit. Mainly thanks to stupid fucking Skype.
But… uh… yeah. Some kind of rant or ramble.
That article about Eli Wallach really makes me want to a) Watch The Good The Bad and The Ugly again and b) play Red Dead
NINJA BEARS! \o/
I really want to re-watch that film again too, though not because of Wallach’s passing. I watched it many times when I was really young, about four or five years old. When I was a kid growing up in New Zealand we were one of the early adopters of Sky TV, which offered several channels. This was back when there were only two free-to-air TV channels in the country.
They played a bunch of cartoon movies during the day and I’d often sit and watch them. They were mainly low-budget, obscure stuff. I don’t remember a lot, but I do remember seeing The Secret of NIMH that way. It was also my first anime exposure with Leda: The Fantastic Adventure of Yohko, which I re-watched recently and it’s actually held up fairly well. There were a few Rankin & Bass productions too, but the only one I remember was Flight of Dragons because of its annoying soundtrack. I think they had The Land Before Time in there as well, but I owned that film on VHS so I may be conflating them. There was also a couple of others I vaguely remember – I remember an animated one that involved Ichabod Crane and the Headless Horseman, there was another that I suspect may have been the original Vampire Hunter D but my mum stopped me watching much of it so I don’t know. There was another which stuck with me for ages because of how fucking upsetting it was, I’ve tried to figure out what it was but never been able to. It involved a mother who’s child disappeared somewhere, and she had to set out to find him, and as she went she encountered gates where she had to give up things to a witch that was there in order to proceed. At one point she gives up her youth, and turns old, and then later she has to give up her eyes and become blind, and that was the bit that really got to me.
So anyway, as you’ve probably guessed, there wasn’t a lot of vetting that went into what went into their daytime movie programming. Some of it was okay for kids, some of it wasn’t. And sometimes they played Spaghetti Westerns around midday (some ‘high noon’ bullshit). Normally I’d be like ‘fuck this adult movie shit’ and pull out one of my VHS collection, which usually meant either watching the ‘good bit’ (Battle of Yavin) in Star Wars, or watching Iron Eagle. But a few times they had The Good, The Bad and The Ugly on. I remember turning the TV on and it was maybe 20 minutes into the film. I didn’t really understand the plot or anything, but it hooked me immediately and I sat and watched the whole film end to end. I would have been four years old, I think. So of course this meant that everything went quiet and that’s usually a sign of trouble and my Mum appeared right after the end of the film as the credits were running and was weirded out that I had watched and enjoyed it. But even without being able to really follow the plot at that age, I knew I was watching something pretty badass. That duel at the end is just cool. And the music is amazing.
But I haven’t re-watched the film properly, ever. That final standoff is etched in my memory but I have no idea what happens. So I should really re-watch it. It’s been on my todo list forever. I actually found that all of the Dollars trilogy is on Netflix earlier this year and decided I’d watch all three, but only got through Fistful of Dollars, which hasn’t dated fantastically. The dubbing made it feel kind of weird since everyone except Clint Eastwood is out of sync with the dialogue.
TGTBATU is a whole ‘nother level to the other two, which are great.
There are people round here that swear by Once upon a time in the West, which is also a great film, but TGTBATU just nails the tone all the way through.
Since I’m venting about DC feelings… 😀
My brother contacted me yesterday to tell me someone from primary school/early high school wants to get in contact with me. He wanted permission to send e-mail address/phone number. Am I a monster for saying hell no? I haven’t looked back since school and don’t see why I should now.
I’m perplexed why someone who hasn’t spoken to me in well over a decade wants to now?
WHAT WOULD WE HAVE IN COMMON?
I don’t want to dwell on the past and am not even the same person they knew.
10 Year Reunion
No… That doesn’t make sense. You would have had that a couple of years ago.
You flatter me thinking I’ve been out of school for only ten years. 😀
Also what sort of self-destructive monster would subject themselves to a reunion? 😛
Do they have 40 Year Reunions?
You flatter me thinking I’ve been out of school for only forty years. 😛
I went to mine. Had a great time.
You and I are very different people! D:
I was far from a social butterfly in high school.
For the first half of it, people who sat next to me, weekly, for 2-3 years, didn’t know who I was.
At the end of year 12, when everyone was signing eachother’s shirts/books/jerseys/whatever, I wrote to one girl “You were always a bit of a cow to me, but it wouldn’t have been the same without you.”
Classic Flu! 😀
Once a mean girl asked me if I even knew her name and I said Barf the Dog Faced Girl and left. I WAS A JERK.
Jerk.
The assumption there is that they are the same person today that they were.
Totally different, but my mother got sent something by someone who had a crush on her in HS a few years ago, some record single he’d bought to give her at the time. Sure he thought it was some romantic, “ha ha we were kids” gesture, but it seemed creepy as fuck given she’d been married at this point for 30+ years and had moved several times.
You sound similar to me.
I cut almost all ties with the people from my Highschool, and have no intention of seeing most of them again.
If someone wanted to get in contact with me, I’d base it on the relationship we had at the time.
If I liked the person, I’d consider it, but if I didn’t like them, or wasn’t interested in catching up, then I wouldn’t feel bad or guilty about saying no.
The thing is I didn’t like the person I was then. I was thoroughly unhappy and biding time for school to finish. I had no friends. I had no social skills. I was a sarcastic jerk which I used as a defense mechanism. I wouldn’t want ‘revertigo’ to kick in. I don’t want to be that guy again. I don’t want any one else to see me as that guy again. :S
Even just a reminder of that era is enough to fill me with dread.
I wouldn’t worry about “revertigo”.
You’re a super nice guy now, which is all that matters. No point dwelling on the past (to make you feel better, I wasn’t the nicest person at school either, which was only 3 years ago).
If you don’t want to reconnect with this person, don’t feel bad about it. If you do want to, then just remember that you’re not the same person that you used to be 🙂
You sound too much like me somedays
I don’t dwell on the past, i just moved 16,000 km away from those assholes!
#doingitright!
I did actually get invited to a re-union once… They didn’t want to pay for flights, so i declined the invitation XDFacebook has ruined all the surprise for my reunion. I already know who got ugly.
aaww /o\
see this i why i don’t use facebook XD
Don’t be surprised if you have more in common than you think. Shared upbringing will always make your world view and often bias similar.
Also just knowing where you came from and having a shared history is a big thing. So don’t discount it, and remember they are not the same person they used to be either.
I’m the same man, only stay in contact with one guy from my school days, we’ve been friends for over twenty years. Everyone else were arseholes to me, have absolutely no desire to see or speak to them ever again.
Man I freak the fuck out when people from school randomly send a friend invite on fb or something. Mostly cos I was very selective about who I hung with at school, but also like you, curious to know what inspired them to make contact.
I’d give them one of your “spam” accounts if you have one (I have a hotmail one I use for random web page signups and shit, that doesn’t have my name in the address.) That way, if you don’t like what they said in their email, delete it and play dumb like you never got it 😉
So i feel i’ve been posting things that are about fairly negative things in my life recently,
So here’s something positive that’s happened:
My mum has advised me that she’s giving me and Mrs. Pixel an early christmas present, which is 2 plane tickets back home for christmas \o/
I’ll be going home for the first time since 2008 \o/
and christmas to boot \o/
Potentially a snowy christmas \o/
And i get to meet my 1 year old niece for the first time \o/
…
YAY \o/
EDIT – @effluvium-boy I’ll bring you back some Yankie Bars if you want XD
Wooo! Siberia probably gets really cold this time of year! 😀
That’s awesome, man. So damn happy for you.
I’ve been pretty bummed out that i haven’t been able to go home for a while due to money constraints, so i’m pretty over the moon with these news 😛
Plus Christmas and New Years like ol’ times will be awesome… IMMA BUY ALL THE FIREWORKS!
My first experience with people being allowed to buy fireworks was in Canada.
I nearly got shot in the face by a rocket.
Good times.
lol
Well this happened about 15km away from where i lived, i remember the smoke! 😛
PROPER HANDLING OF FIREWORKS \o/
ALL THE UPVOTES
So happy for ya mang, that’s awesome \0/
Thanks man, i’m normally not home sick or anything, if i was i would never have moved in the first place, but it’ll be nice to catch up with family and stuff…
And 6 (bordering on 7) years is a long time to not go home 😛
Sort of know how you feel man, haven’t seen my mum for 6 years, really miss her.
Dude that sucks!
I don’t mean to pry, but why?
Don’t feel compelled to answer if you don’t want to, i’m just curious that’s all
She divorced my dad, met a guy in some chatroom, moved over to America (where he’s from) and got married to him.
Wow… that’s… wow… sorry i don’t mean to break personal space,
i’m sorry to hear that man
Do a Year Walk!
(don’t)
I’ll record my adventures, Blair Witch style!
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yum!
I miss your mum too.
She always used to give me yankies.
You’re a terrible person…
😛So, I’ve decided to uninstall Origin.
Quite possibly the best decision I’ve ever made. 🙂
If that’s the best decision you’ve ever made, your life has been bereft of interesting choices.
Either that, or very, very, very interesting (and poor) choices. 🙂
They say the wisest people have made the best mistakes.
Only reason I keep it is for when they dish out free games! 99% of the time, the software just sits on my hdd not running!
@negativezero – so what were A, B and D? End up playing anything? 😛
How’d you find Nier overall?How amazing is that Xenoblade game, huh?
Don’t ask him about Nier. 🙁
Why not? I finished it and got all the endings and I’m done with it and thought it was reasonably okay. It just didn’t blow my mind. But I didn’t really realistically expect it to, since it was a Cavia game by the Drakengard guys. I liked the Drakengard games a fair bit but they’re absolutely batshit and very flawed, but at the same time are interesting because of that. Nier’s the same thing really.
@freezespreston guessed all three correctly. Atelier (Atelier Rorona Plus just came out so I have no excuses for not playing the trilogy now), Drakengard 3 (going to give up waiting for Squenix to fix the JP Voice DLC 🙁 ) and Bravely Default.
I thought Nier was okay.
It’s a fucking weird game. So many dumb systems in there that are just not fun to engage with, like growing flowers and stuff, and the broken stupid fishing mini-game. The world felt very small. Not sure what was really going on, if anything. Ending C and D came out of nowhere for me a bit too. Also I had correctly predicted that the subsequent playthroughs would make you feel like a horrible monster for killing the bosses, and I was right. Kind of felt strange hearing him being all KILL ALL THE SHADES constantly when you can actually hear them.Nier is a ridiculously ugly motherfucker. Looks like a caveman. That said I’m glad I played this version rather than the one where he’s Yonah’s brother because his single-minded devotion to her would have felt all kind of wrong, whereas as her father it feels appropriate.
Really wasn’t in love with elements of the combat. Especially the stupid little dudes that would jump-kick you sometimes as they were spawning so there was no way to see it to dodge. The bullet hell style bullet spam sucked a lot, especially on the final part of the last boss where it just felt random and impossible to weave through well.
The music was nice but fuck me did it get repetitive, especially that vocal piece that sounded like Russian in the outdoor zones. The only one that really didn’t grate for me eventually was the music in the desert zone, it was rad. Needed a bit more diversity there.
There were a few areas that I absolutely hated. The mansion, the way everything was black and white for no explained reason at all and the fixed camera perspectives with enemies hiding in areas you couldn’t see and the way that your controls would change direction between camera angles and stuff was everything that’s bad about old PS1 games like Resident Evil. And the zone underneath the mansion that’s in a fixed isometric perspective? Fuck that place, it just dragged on and on and on, full of the enemies I hated fighting too.
By my second playthrough I was using the Phoenix Spear I think it was. Gold spear. Upgraded it one step right after getting it and it was so strong with the +30% damage word on it that I was easily able to get all the speed-kill achievements for the bosses because I was taking them out in 3-4 melee hits, and that was often frustrating because you’d have to sit and wait for dialogue to end or something before you could do the finishing blow.
Overall I don’t feel like I wasted my time, but it wasn’t a revelatory experience like I’d been lead to believe. I expected massive changes on the second playthrough, and nothing changed at all except the ending. I was expecting an amazing plot and incredible characters and so on based on the game’s hype, but it didn’t really seem all that special. I’m glad I played it and don’t feel like I wasted my time doing so, but it wasn’t amazing. 7.5 Bishes out of 10.
I probably would have given it an 8 but then I knew sweet fa about it and just liked the look of it so had no expectations. Didn’t change my world but thoroughly enjoyed it.
Yeah, I was originally going to say 8, but then I thought of other stuff I’d have given an 8 to and realized it wasn’t quite there. But 7 is too harsh. It’s an enjoyable game and I liked it, I wouldn’t have sunk 30 hours into it and gotten all the endings if I wasn’t feeling it. Has definitely picked up a fair degree of over-hype though.
Xenoblade is a pretty cool guy. Shulk and Reyn are now making love heard eyes at each other in my save.
Shulk and Dunban in my game!
I have had an interesting day today. My parents had to come to town for a funeral, so I had to look after their dog. After the funeral, we went out to lunch with my uncle and aunty and I had a spiced lamb slider with chips. It was really nice talking with my uncle and aunty, because even though they’re not that far away from me, I don’t see them that often. It was also nice to just get out of the house for a bit.
Family catch ups can be good like that. Lunch sounds like it was delicious too! Lamb!! *drooool*
Won’t tell you I’m having lamb chops for tea tonight then … 😉
Arrrrr! I haven’t had a good bit o lamb for a loooooong time! Probably not since the last roast my mum or sister made! Love me some lamb, but every time I go to buy some, it’s uber expensive :\
Missus picked up a lamb roast the other day for $9.95 as it was on sale… 2 hours later, after having been roasted on the spit, yuuuuuuuuuuuuum!
Highly recommend keeping an eye on the discount meat sections of supermarkets or go to a meat market late in the day when they are trying to get rid of everything they didn’t sell… sometimes you get ridiculously good value!
Urrrrrrgh.
*buries head in hands and laughs*
Today has not gone as planned. Only two wins so far (1) Morning sausage roll. 2) Heartfelt and detailed compliment from a client), need a third to salvage. Otherwise, I know it’s late in the day, but I want a do-over. I have achieved practically nothing. I’ve been very useful to people other than who I’m being measured on being useful to.
Love it.
On the plus side… tonight is trading card night!
Hope the weekend treats you well, buddy!
You’re an attractive lover.
I’ll take it. 🙂
Trading card night?
My trading restriction expires a bit after 7pm tonight, so boom! ALL OF THE TRADING!
I’ll second redartifice’s Trading Card Night?
Sounds like a reasonable day though all things considered. I’ve had many a day like that at work in the past few months. Those days when you get nothing done that you wanted/had to, but accomplished other stuff which keeps others happy.
Just be glad it’s Friday! Weekend ahoy!
I feel like I have achieved very little this entire week.
3) check your stem inventory.
Ah hell, Monkey, I was just tryin’ ta bridge that gap between your pays. That’s a swell gift! It’s not even on special or anything!
Don’t worry about it, I still get paid next week. Enjoy man.
Magic: The Gardening people –
I got some sort of card pack thing for Duels of the I Walk on Aircraft on Steam. Who wants it?
is it for the 2014 version?
“Steam Puzzle Igniatus”
It’s actually for Might & Magic: Duel of Champions
…I have no idea.
My aneurysm just had an aneurysm!
If no-one else wants it, I’ll take it if that’s ok.
My son told me he couldn’t read “chapter books” so I got out James And The Giant Peach (got a collection of Dahl from Costco for under $30 last week!) and made him read the first chapter to prove he could read anything he wanted. He almost made it, but he was too tired. I’m gonna make him read the whole book during the holidays because I am a mean Mummy. 😀
Edited because even though he can read, I apparently can’t spell. 😛
So proud. :’)
Learning to read is probably the best thing I’ve done. Haha!
Also, hooray for Cost Co and its north side affiliations.
I used to love reading as a kid. Once I got to the age where I could read and understand Choose Your Own Adventure books, I went cray cray for reading! These days though, all I read is manuals.
Well, I have read one book in the past few years (or rather, still reading it) and that’s Metro7, cos how could I not?! All teh <3 for @beardymcmuttonchops!
Reading opened up adventure games for me when I was a kid. That was like Choose Your Own Adventure but even more interactive. 😀 Text parser games taught me words.
Little Big Adventure 2 and Grim Fandango is the 2 games that forced me to learn english… true story 😛
I can see where the encyclopedia knowledge of Grim quotes comes from then. 😀
What if replaying the remastered version MAKES YOU FORGET ENGLISH. D:
Bahahaha!
Yep, Little Big Adventure and Grim Fandango is pretty embedded in my mind!
Same with Star Wars X-Wing… it was funny, i watched those stupid briefings in X-Wing 100’s of times, could emulate word for word what they said, had NO CLUE what it meant XD… mind you i was 6 maybe 7 years old at the time 😛
EDIT – OH and Star Wars Rebel Assault as well! could recite the entire freaking intro without understanding what was happening… Although i could derive that “Rookie One” was the name of my character 😛
I was like that with the Huttese in A New Hope & Return Of The Jedi, only reason I knew was the subtitles and after a few dozen viewings I didn’t need them
Did you ever get into the more ‘advanced’ choose your own adventure stuff like Lone Wolf? I got way into that stuff in my early teens.
I did! They were great! I had a few of another kind as well. Can’t recall what the series was called, but I still have a few buried in one of my boxes somewhere!
Did you know that Joe Dever is pretty awesome and allowed all the out of print old books to be distributed over the internet for free?
http://www.projectaon.org/en/Main/Home
EDIT: Hey, turns out the last book in the series was published there just this week too.
No I didn’t! Thanks for the link! Have to nab some of that for when my nephew’s are old enough! They’ll love it!
Was that like the dragonlance stuff?
Dragonlance was just novels right? Joe Dever’s Lone Wolf books were where you rolled a character at the start and then it was a choose your own adventure novel but periodically you’d go into a combat and have to fight and then turn to various pages depending on the outcome, and as you finished books you would level up as well. Or you could just choose whether you beat the monster or not.
Roald Dahl is a hero.
You Sydney folks should go see Matilda when it opens later this year!
Room for one more!
Thanks for the lift Powa… oh you meant D.C…
And I could post a whole bunch of stuff on a bunch of old pages, so if they look at it in the morning, they’d be all “Why the hell is 16734 important?”
But I wouldn’t really do that, because SO LAZY.
What are you doing here @dc !
Doesn’t it open in 2015?
You Sydney folks should go see Matilda when it opens in 2015!
I’m seeing it with the fam fam!
Might organise a meat to see it too, because shit, I love me some musical theatre.
War hero. Did you read his book Flying Solo? Craziness.
I remember in year one I found out that one girl in my year was reading chapter books, and horrified that I was so behind someone, I mentioned this to my mother.
Her response was to point out that the book I’d been reading at the time had chapters, as had many other things I’d read.
Wow, echoes of assignments past. James and the Giant Peach was one of the ones I was handed as a task, as a kid, too.
James & the Giant Peach is a good book. I never really got into Dahl’s other stuff though. Remember several of them being read to us by various teachers in primary school and that was a nice way to get through them.
How old is he? If he’s finding novels still a bit tricky, have you tried comics? I basically learned to read by myself as a kid by having my mum read Tintin and Asterix books, and because there was constantly pictures and everything to keep you engaged that was more exciting and I was encouraged to read them on my own. Past that I started into bigger books, basically skipping a lot of the usual kids novels, though I did spend a fair amount of time reading several books by Maurice Gee. Don’t know if he was ever big in Australia, but he did some great fantasy stuff that I really enjoyed.
(Funniest thing was that in my first year of primary school in parent-teacher interviews my teacher apparently informed my mum that she felt I wasn’t very good at reading because I was struggling with the materials they were doing in class. Truth was, I was bad at the class material because it was boring as shit.)
Oh he’s only 5. He’s way ahead of all the other kids in his class, but I just didn’t want him to let self-doubt get to him so I wanted to prove to him he could do it even though he thought he couldn’t. 🙂
He reads every word he sees in ads and things while we’re out(this can be a bit awkward!), he even reads TAY over my shoulder sometimes before I realise he’s there. 😛 And he’s also started playing more games now he can read the instructions and stories.
And yeah, this is his first year at school and his teacher is telling me he’s brilliant academically, but she’s worried he won’t physically be able to keep up because he “tires easily” when the class is having to draw specific things. I’m pretty sure it’s just because he doesn’t find a lot of those things they’re making them do very interesting.
What my mum always did with me was if I was interested in anything, we would go to the library and get out some books on it. The internet didn’t exist back then though.
You’re such a badass at this. 🙂
Oh fuck… though I guess I shouldn’t say that just in case…
I was a hell of a reader as a kid myself, my mum did day care and basically was an informal kindergarten/year1 teacher for all the kids she looked after so everyone she had went to school with a hell of a good start in maths & reading. I often ended up bored to all hell and finished before the rest of the class in a lot of lessons.
I know it was just a perceptual thing (aided in no small part by gaming teaching it to me) but I ended up teaching my year 8 or 9 maths teacher a better way to teach 3 dimensional geometry.
You should go all Book-a-boo on him! A chapter a day, or you just can’t play!
Hi Master Strange, you shameless flirt
If you guys are having a girl you’re never going to let my son near her, are you? 😛
Why not, if things worked out you could end up being family 😛
A bit late of a response but apparently I had a similar issue when I was younger. My mum said that I was rather intelligent compared to a few of my classmates in primary and in my boredom I’d be the difficult student that would always prove a problem or be disruptive in class. I think I managed to get out of that phase by reading lots of books or doing sport or something like that.
Did your son go to prep before primary school? I’ve heard of a few parents saying that their children are performing better at primary school because of prep but they’re being held back by the other kids that didn’t go.
This is Prep. Although it’s the Queensland equivalent of Kinder. The year before Grade One at school. I believe what you’re talking about is called Kinder up here. Confusing, yes. And no, my son did not do Kinder, which is also why his teacher is surprised at his academic prowess. 🙂
Edit: Also, I don’t believe kids can hold other kids back. That whole idea feels alien to me.
Have you tried the Captain Underpants series?
This
Or at least keep it in mind. My nephew was mad for it when he was about 6 but that was from a family of voracious readers, so balance this against his level. But the books are very, very good
Next time, cheat and give him a book without chapters then tell him that he can only sleep after he finishes the first chapter.
He’s already cheated me like that, though! I told him I’d read him the first chapter of one of those Roald Dahl books and he brought me The Magic Finger which I didn’t realise had no chapters. 😛
The crafty little bugger. I knew there was a reason I liked him.
Like Discworld
Whilst you’re at it, try and get him hooked on the Captain Underpants books.
They’re on my list of what I want to get him for Christmas.
Annie LOVES that book! She’s huge into Dahl at the moment! \o/
Accommodation: booked!
Something Grand Chancellor or something?
I dunno :3
I’m good at this travelling thing :3
Kinda expensive, but I was under budget on the airfare, so splurged a little 😀
Apparently there’s something on though, so only managed to book from Monday to Saturday :S
Came in under budget for the airfare and accommodation overall though, so I’m pretty pleased 🙂
Just remember to pack underwear!
As a teenager going away on a summer camp, i completely forgot underwear! that was an uncomfortable freaking week!
Right in CBD and near Roma St station. (Central too.) Main shopping district/touristy stuff is easy walking distance too. You’ve done good! 🙂
Apparently there’s a pool on the roof, but after Hackers I don’t trust any one who says that. D:
I did see a picture of the pool, and now that I think about it, it did look like it may have been on the roof.
You can swing by and check it out! 😀
For what it’s worth you got a beach in South Bank about fifteen minutes away. (An artificial beach BUT IT STILL COUNTS.) I guess you’ll probably be seeing a few beaches on the Gold Coast anyways.
Oh right, I should probably check out the beaches at the GC, haha!
My plans so far were seriously just to bum around shopping centres all day, but I guess I could go to the beach :3
DON’T FORGET THE THEME PARKS! D: D: D:
Wow, I suck at holidaying, hahaha!
I need someone to go with though :'(
I don’t wanna bum around a themepark by myself…
*slooooow wiiiiiiinks*
If only people bought 12 month passes when people came up for a meat
I’ll take your word for it, haha! :3
I heard “Central”, and thought it would be good.
Plus it was one of the cheaper places around, cause apparently State of Origin is on or some thing :3
So long as it’s easy to get to / from, I dint mind 😀
UFO Aftermath – Firing Wildly For Freedom
Episode 3: Ashes of the Past
Phoenix Company was progressing along nicely. They had gotten into a nice rhythm of successful missions. Meanwhile, the scientists of the Council of Earth continued research on the multitude of Transgenants they had been fighting. Brigham mostly ignored the reports, and more or less made Waylon read them. Report after report, the Transgenants seemed less and less alien to Waylon. The Transgenants appeared to be mutants. Where were the real aliens? They had to show up at some point.
Waylon was looking through the reports on the Cudgel Transgenants when Brigham showed up.
“Stand to attention, Private.”
“Yes sir, I was just looking through the reports-”
“Yeah, yeah. Look. We’ve got a big mission coming up.”
“Do you want me to get Santiago, Cygnet, and Glorianna?”
“Bring them, but also bring the new recruits.”
“We have new recruits?”
“Yeah, we do. Except they suck worse than you, so I’ve been more or less keeping them on the sidelines.”
Waylon tried to think of all the new recruits they had gotten. There was that Native-American chick that Brigham gave an ancient Greek name. What was it? Ares, Angola? No, wait, that was Aella.
Then there was that chick that Brigham calls Tomoko, despite the fact that she isn’t the least bit Japanese. She was pretty smart. Tomoko had been trained as a scientist, then Brigham realised he didn’t know what a scientist was supposed to do in combat scenarios, and kept her at base.Then there was that chick Rosemary. Brigham couldn’t stand having a troop without a fancy nickname, so he named her Paprika. Brigham knew fully well that Rosemary was a way cooler name, but he was too stubborn to change her name back. Paprika was the only new recruit that could be considered worthwhile, and she was trained as a backup medic. Waylon didn’t have a clue why Brigham needed a backup medic; Santiago had never failed them. Well, except for those couple of times that he did.
There was Jupiter, the Arnold Schwarzenegger clone. He could be a good soldier in time.
Lastly, we had Cecil. He had the stats for a good scout, but Glorianna already had that covered. So Cecil was completely useless.
Waylon had been in deep thought for a while. He realised that Brigham was long gone. He also realised that everyone was in the chopper, waiting for him. Walon climbed in. He noted that Brigham, Santiago, Glorianna, Cygnet, Paprika, and Tomoko were already there. A full team. Everybody was in full heavy combat gear. Woah, this looked like it might be a big mission. Brigham had forgotten to give Tomoko a helmet.
It was at this point that Waylon realised he had no idea what the mission was. Brigham must have briefed everyone else while Waylon was in deep thought.
“So, uh… what’s the mission again” whispered Waylon to Brigham.
Brigham narrowed his eyes and shook his head.
“Guess you’ll find out pretty soon.” he said.
***
Brigham woke up. They were here. Brigham looked out of the chopper’s window. Area 51. Maybe they could find some important information here. Brigham saw Waylon wide eyes and smirked.
Next thing he knew, Phoenix Company was on the sands of Nevada. There didn’t seem to be anything in sight. That wouldn’t last long.
Phoenix Company only walked a few paces before Glorianna spotted something. It didn’t look like any transgenant Brigham had ever seen. He squinted his eyes, and realised he was looking at a genuine goddam alien. It carried some sort of future weapon. A future weapon that it was shooting.
“Run for the nearest cover!” Brigham shouted.
Phoenix Company ran to the nearest wall. Brigham then ordered everyone at once to leave cover and shoot simultaneously. Except there were now two targets. The targets eventually became none, but Brigham took some mild damage. That would hurt in the morning.
Phoenix Company ran for the base, and entered. They were now in a series of white hallways. An alien could be behind any corner.
Brigham spotted a big computer at the end of the hallway. That was their prime target. There only seemed to be one computer at Area 51. That computer probably stored all of the secret government files.
Brigham made a run for the computer and picked it up. An alien popped out and started shooting. Phoenix Company took it down, but Brigham was seriously hurt. The hallways were too thin for Santiago to administer proper medical help, so Brigham hobbled to the exit, carrying the computer that would free them all.
Brigham noticed that many of the dead aliens had strange weapons on them. Brigham ordered any troops that had room on their person to carry the alien weapons with them. Nobody knew how to fire them.
Back at base, Brigham recuperated in a sick bay whilst the rest of Phoenix Company recaptured a base in Canada. Brigham was confident in their success; Cygnet was in charge. This left Brigham with a lot of time to look over the scientist’s work. They hadn’t been working on decrypting the Area 51 files because they had more important matters; they had to analyse the alien weapons. Soon, Phoenix Company would have access to a fully functional Laser pistol. This was exciting times, and Brigham was stuck in a damn sick bay.
Soon enough, Brigham ran out of scientific documents to look over and started to think about the progression of Phoenix Company. Brigham had grown to love their quirks. Their voice acting didn’t sound as horrible as it used to. He had grown to like Glorianna’s Texas cheerleader voice, and Santiago’s horrible abomination of a Japanese accent. Waylon was rapidly turning into a worthwhile soldier. Brigham had to admit he’d started to like the boy.
You know what? When R&D finished making that laser pistol, Waylon would be the first to use it. He’d earned it.
Brigham looked to the future with high hopes.
Holy shit, 1 000 words.
That’s bigger than the first two episodes combined.
‘Firing Wildly For Freedom’ is the best subtitle.
And could make a title for a porno
Assuming that it isn’t already XD
‘Firing Wildly For Freedom’: A flag waving patriotic bukkake adventure featuring Shock And Awe, Bunker Busters and Spiderholes. MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!
Anyone help me adding details to TAYnames?
Also, pick these up please (humble bundle)
Sanctum 2
Rocketbirds: Hardboiled Chicken
Orcs Must Die! 2: Complete Pack
Symphony
The Bard’s Tale
FEZ
Divinity II: The Developer’s Cut
(more later when I have time to go through them)
Pretty sure you can just edit the TAYNAMES doc?
Linkylinky!
😀
Anyone can edit TAYnames but just don’t go crazy putting dicks everywhere 😛
…again
;_;
Boobs are fine ? \o/
Oh you!
;D
Oh, they’re more than fine, buddy.
*Winks suggestively at women.*
*Gets arrested for being a creep. Again.*
In for a penny in for a pound I always say
What you mean by pick these up? You giving them away or something?
Yeah they are spare copies 😛
So Netflix is coming to Australia legally apparently..
Only how many years too late?
Too many.. Since in 2001 Blockbuster Video in the US was offered to buy Netflix and they said it would never take off..
With australien tax?
NETFLIX, ONLY $110 A MONTH \o/
For only a quarter of the line-up, that’s not as bad as expected!
You people make me lol
Not including set up costs and fees handed directly into telstra a hands because telstra
According solely to Graham Burke who has never uttered an untruth in his life.
“Guys, y’all totally getting Netflix next year so none of ya have any excuse to pirate ever again and should all stop right now”
Dafuq does this guy get so much airing of his opinions I’ll never know.
hahahaha, what a dickhead.
“Availability and pricing totally does nothing to deal with piracy. We’re introducing something to make things cheaper and more available to deal with piracy.”
Wow, he’s serious which is sad..
But then again I guess when places like JB HiFi have sales on stuff like Blu-rays where it’s like 2 for 20 doesn’t do anything, apart from the fact I have about 100 blu-ray movies now… So yeah doesn’t help deal with piracy or anything..
I heard that line years ago. =P
Hence the apparently 😛
This evening has been pretty good so far!
I washed my hair!!! (omgnowai!) …which definitely isn’t anything to brag about on its own but since my surgery was only on one ear this time, it made it possible to wash dat hair without getting the wound wet. That spray shampoo was pretty terrible btw 😛 (at least when used as an alternative to washing).
Crazybuy strikes again boom boom! <3
Crazybuy is just the worst.
That’s our Crazybuy
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
*canned laughter*
How’s it healing up?
Should totally rock the shaved head and save yourself the shampoo issue
It’s becoming less annoying every day 😀
That was the plan but I just shaved the sides and back, and left the top part longer 😛
Ahh doin the hipster look
The Blaghs review of Valiant Hearts (I’ve played 2 hours):
Hawkeye: War isn’t Hell. War is war, and Hell is Hell. And of the two, war is a lot worse.
Father Mulcahy: How do you figure, Hawkeye?
Hawkeye: Easy, Father. Tell me, who goes to Hell?
Father Mulcahy: Sinners, I believe.
Hawkeye: Exactly. There are no innocent bystanders in Hell. War is chock full of them – little kids, cripples, old ladies. In fact, except for some of the brass, almost everybody involved is an innocent bystander.
Overall, a 23/17 on the feels scale.
Man that’s deep…
Risk of Rain is raddddddd! (thanks again Steveno)
I noticed a bunch of people have it, anyone wanna co-op some time? 😀
I would be up for some co-op!
Well that didn’t work 😀
Aaaaww sorry @evilmonkey!
i don’t think Goat Simulator has network multiplayer, seems to be limited to local co op :\
Ah well, that’s an excuse to get some guys together with alcohol and THEN goat together 😛
That’s cool man, Have to bring my laptop to the PAX meat and hopefully we can get our Goat on.
@scree @strange – free shipping today until midnight. I am very very tempted to get these: http://www.inspiredinsanity.com.au/Homewares-Gifts/Vintage-80s-Geek-Pac-Man-Ice-Cube-Tray-Chocolate-Mold/prod_1367.html
And @evilmonkey
Cheers for tagging me Scree.
very cool!
OMG guys. Watch Dogs is on a flash sale on Steam for about what you can buy it for retail…
And nearly 25% more than a copy from ozgameshop will cost you…
Bargain?
…Pretend I used a different catchphrase this time, my current one is getting old. 🙁
Get an American friend to gift it to you? Might cost about the same then
Nah, don’t want it,, already have it. Just looking at the absurdity of a “sale”, especially a front page featured one, being the expensive option.
Well to be fair OGS has $100 RRP and on sale for that price
But yeah minus the convict tax it is under $50
Was like $37 at launch from GMG though!
So the cold has decided it’s really going to get me by making my back hurt as well. I will kill you cold! It might take ages but I. Will. Take. You. Down.
Do you have a wheat bag or hot water bottle?
I leave them for Mum. I’ll be okay when I go to bed
I havent done anything! dont kill me 🙁
You need an electric blanket
We don’t use them because they can be a fire risk.
Electric blankets are fine, The only risk if if you leave them on or have large stuff on your bed when you have them on.
I don’t use them because I am terrible at turning them off and I wake up half way through the night, dehydrated and overheating
The Adventures of the King of Munster (ie: First Attempt At Crusader Kings 2)
First things first, get the priority done and marry a smoking hot 18 year old Norwegian girl.
Second, get smoking hot teenage Scandinavian brides for my brothers.
Except the one that didn’t like me. He got a 4 year old Hungarian bride. Dick.
Study some books while impregnating wife several times.
Bang a lusty wench on the side.
Throw vassal into dungeon then into the Oubliette after he attempts to escape. Claims he is being mistreated, execute him.
Declare war on neighbor to the south after he repeatedly refuses to become my vassal despite showering him with gifts and marrying off my daughter.
Promptly get curbstomped into oblivion by superior forces.
Thus ends his reign.
@redartifice
I played 2 tutorials, and cried because I didn’t understand anything.
8/10
If you want to curbstomp the guy to your south, find some other powerful guy you can marry your daughter to, butter him up as an ally, then declare war on the southern guy and call powerful guy in
Also, what did your vassal do?
Tried to put a claim on my lands.
Deploy your diplomat to fuck their shit up
My wife hated me so I kept siring bastards on my courtiers every time she went off on a “spiritual retreat”. I suppose I could have thrown her in jail but I felt like I have to keep up appearances, you know?
OH, Crusader Kings? Disregard the above.
Wow. Sniper Elite V2 is actually really fun to me. I dunno why I listened to the bad things about it, I’m having a ball.
(Possibly due to reduced expectations. This seems to be why I enjoy most movies I see.)
You should watch pacific rim, @inquizitorz thinks it’s shit 😛
@inquisitorsz
Have you played coop? That’s where the real fun is, you can be a dick and steal each others kills, compete to see who can kill the tank or enemy sniper first and then abuse the one who did. Great fun
One REALLY important tip to save a lot of frustration later in the game, towards the end there’s a section where you have to snipe a particular machine that’s being fuelled and the briefing says you have a short window. By fuck it means it and its really not good at alerting you when your objectives update except by the text in the upper left corner so keep an eye on it when the machine is getting close to ready (it’s visually kind of obvious, also note where the fuel line attaches as it’s your target). When you almost inevitably fail, the checkpoint is also kind of weird, it looks like you have to do the entire defend your position section again but it’s only a few seconds before the sniping window opens so don’t go running out and setting up your booby traps or trying to take up a good position to fight since you’ve only got to get ready to shoot the target.
For cryin’ out loud @freezespreston, stop gifting me shit :p Thanks heaps for Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon.
You’re a fucking legend man.
HE GIFTED ME THAT TOO!
WHAT A MONSTER!
…
Wait. The other thing…
HERO OF OUR TIME.
Everyone should have that game!
Yes, Yes they should.
When playing around with stuff for getting War Thunder to work with the Rift, I saw that Tridef had picked up Blood Dragon as one of the games it works with.
Guess I’ll have to give it another play… (once I get the damn thing working properly, anyway)
Now that’s funny, L.A. Noire is one of the community choice sale games. The base game is 75% off at $12.49 and the Complete Edition with all the DLC is 83% off at $10.19…. how does that work?
umm..well..hmmm…we need that budgeting game again!
I was gonna play games tonight but im just not feeling it, I played 2 heists in payday then turned it off, i loaded Orion Dino Hoard then turned it off after joing a server because I got kicked, my laptops at the pointy end of the life cycle so newer games wont play on it and I figured id start Valiant Hearts but my controller is at my girlfriends house and would prefer to play it with a controller…ughhh damn you friday feels!
Yeah, definitely controller for Valiant Hearts!
@freezespreston Thanks Man!
@crazyguy1990? More like Crazybuy1990! (Hehe, surprised no one thought of that one. I’m so smart.)
Add to thank you page 15.
I think you’ll find I came up with that a year or two ago when he last went on a massive gifting spree! 🙂 He’s pretty damn special!
Huh, just had an interesting quirk of the old computer reappear for the first time in a good couple of years now. Where on loading up, the screen just stays blank and you have to reset. Then on next boot it complains about display settings being incorrect, and it takes another two resets to get it working again (if it doesn’t do the same thing again during one of them). Always seemed to only occur during the colder months, for whatever reason.
Fun times 😛
Good night tonight! I had Karaage Ramen for dinner which was super delicious. I took an Inception picture for Twitter with several people taking pictures of each other. And @effluvium-boy’s and my gaytimes touched.
Also, @mrtaco left early and didn’t tell me that trackwork started at 10pm on our line, so there were no trains home! What a jerk.
I managed to get the Light Rail home though, which was actually surprisingly great. More expensive and less convenient than the train, but it was a lot more… welcoming(?) than the train. Chatty guardsman joking with me, smiling people sitting everywhere. It was oddly nice 😛
Ugh, talking to people.
Gross.
Sounded like a good night until he mentioned the whole “chatting” thing.
…there was trackwork?
I didn’t see any.
Probably because I was asleep.Lucky, you must’ve got out just in time!
It was a beautiful moment.
Damn people buying flash sale games before you have a chance to gift them.
Gotta go fast
@redartifice @blaghman @quiz_b @tech_knight @sernobulus: I have… obtained… a copy of the Edge of the Empire core rulebook ahead of my print version arriving.
Regarding droids,
I’m a little iffy on it completely, may need to read several times, but it seems like they have six different models, but also define five specific classifications for droids. Class 1 droids are built for science, medicine or similar. Very intelligent, but might lack ‘common sense’. Class 2 are engineering and technical droids which specialize in stuff like repairs and astrogation, average intelligence, non-threatening appearance and often quirky personalities. Class 3 are humanoid droids that are designed for social interaction and service, acting as interpreters, teachers, diplomatic assistants etc. Class 4 are combat droids designed for military or law enforcement use. And Class 5 droids are designed for heavy or menial labor, very simple and usually not intelligent enough to be sentient.
They describe six models of droid which are playable, though I don’t see why you would necessarily have to be limited to these models aside from that they definitely fit into the Original Trilogy universe. The models they mention are:
– 2-1B surgical droids (see the Empire Strikes Back, during the scene where Luke is in a bacta tank, and also at the end of the film, where one is helping attach his replacement hand)
– 3PO protocol droids (C-3PO obvs)
– IG Assassin Droid (see the Empire Strikes Back, IG-88 is one of the bounty hunters there)
– LE-VO Security Droids (not in the films)
– LOM Protocol Droids (Empire again, 4-LOM is one of the bounty hunters there, obviously deviated quite a bit from his original programming!)
– R-series Astromechs (R2-D2)
2-1B is a Class 1. 3PO and LOM units are Class 3. IG and LE-VO are Class 4. R-series Astromechs are Class 2. I think HK-47’s tech is way too old to be around still, but IMO if you want to use a droid model from the prequels as a base I wouldn’t be too against that.
It also looks like droids start with the lowest base stats but get a bigger chunk of bonus points and select a wider range of extra abilities during character creation.
The other playable species for now are Bothans, Gand, Humans, Rodians, Trandoshans, Twi’lek, Wookies. Some of the other books might add more. Also species doesn’t look to do an enormous amount beyond setting base stats, starting points for customization and a few special abilities, so if you have another species which may not be in the game which you really want to play I can probably figure out a way to manage it, so if you have your heart set on being a Zabrak or a Duros or a Weequay or a Chiss or a Bith or a Gran or whatever I can probably handle it, so long as it’s a species which should exist at that point in the timeline and it’s a well fleshed-out one and not something Kevin J Anderson mentioned in a paragraph of a book once and no one else knows anything about them.
EDIT: Also ideally it needs to be a species that’s sentient, roughly humanoid, isn’t completely stupid (no Gammoreans unless you want to make a Piggy) and communicates vocally otherwise it’ll be too hard to work in. Also a species which realistically would be found roving the galaxy in some capacity. So no Ewoks (pre-spaceflight). And no Lamproids, because what the actual fuck?
But what if I wanted to be Lieutenant Ketch? Yub Yub, commander!
my star wars nerdiness rolls deep. I don’t want to play an Ewok!I might go the IG droid as I’d prefer to be a droid that can fight. R2 units I was thinking about trying as they’re darn good at hacking doors and fixing things but yeah won’t I really suck in combat being unable to take cover or something like that?
It’s a shame I can’t be a real HK droid, cuz I absolutely love that droid model, one of my all time favourites.
I’m thinking just out loud here:
My droid could be a literal “soldier for hire” as part of a third party security company or business that sells my services as almost anything that can make use of my combat protocols, from a bodyguard of a leader/politician, to a mercenary taking part in a heist. I was originally found in a junk heap quite damaged but not irreparably by a Rodian named Chorko and once he studied me and fixed he knew the people he worked for could really use something like me. I do not remember why I was there to begin with as it seems my memory was erased prior, I’m guessing my last master was no longer pleased with me. They usually offer fleshy bodyguards for hire and even some weaponry (Possibly illegally gained weaponry as well). This security company doesn’t really ask questions of their clients, they only respond to potential profits. Maybe I could’ve been bought by one of the other characters but I won’t know for sure until I know what the others want to do as I doubt I would be let free to travel with this party.I dunno just throwing some ideas around in my head. What do you think of that so far?
You don’t have to feel limited to the models there, you can go beyond your initial design quite easily. 4LOM for example was a protocol droid originally but then became a jewel thief and finally a bounty hunter.
But that sounds okay as a starting point to me.
Nose operation tomorrow. That’ll be fun.
Good luck
Based on my experience with surgery, you will either sit there bored while stuff happens around you, or you will count to about three and wake up very confused.
It’s good fun.
I had surgery on my ear on Monday. What @Blaghman said is right, totally fun!
Fingers crossed you get the local anaesthetic, I had a really good sleep when I p had surgery thanks to it, but it does feel confusing and kinda shitty coming out of it as it’s a constant case of waking up and falling back asleep
Good luck – you’ll be fine.
Well fuck, steam have just removed my copy of sniper elite 3 from my account
Thanks Ozgameshop, nice to know you keep up your credit card payments…That’s fucked up THIS weekend’s plans…
So wait, it accepted it and then later on revoked it? That’s weird
And a long way from a rare event in this case: http://steamcommunity.com/app/238090/discussions/0/540744936577983546/
Geeez, not sure if that’s ozgameshops bad or just steam doing a whole system wipe of game activations not purchased through Their store
Seems like the developers are behind it.
Possible, I mean ozgameshop and the like were selling it cheap, maybe they weren’t getting the profits they wanted outta 3rd party sellers
But they’re even blocking the physical copies.
For example, you go to EBGames, buy a copy of the game, come home and find it doesn’t work. You have to then buy it again from Steam. It’s ridiculous.
Oh wow, I didnt know they blocked physical copies aswell, geez yeah that definetely sounds like its on steams and the developers end
The update they posted in that thread says one of the key distributors had their keys stolen and steam then cancelled them to stop the stolen versions of the keys being used.
Presumably what happened is that distributor had sent them out to places like greenmangaming & ozgameshop in advance (presumably they printed some of the physical copies), the theft and cancellation happened and it screwed everyone over. I’m confident it’ll be resolved eventually but it’ll not be a fun weekend for a lot of people.
CC @coldcamv
That sucks overall, hopefully its resolved fast but I can feel the annoyance it would be for yourself and those who had purchased the game and for this to happen
Yeah it’s a bugger. I’ve got enough self awareness to know I’m not the centre of the universe and that no one is happy in this situation, I’ve got enough to keep me busy until it’s resolved and it’s just a matter of waiting it out and playing door kickers until then. At least I can pretend the tangos are cd key thieves.
Hmmmmmmm I think I’ve just decided on the plot of my first custom scenario…
“YOU WOULDN’T STEAL A CD KEY…
BECAUSE YOU’LL BE FLASHBANGED AND SHOT IN THE FACE BY 4 GUYS WITH AUTOMATIC SHOTGUNS MOTHERFUCKER!”
Contact OZGameShop, Something sounds fishy on steams end.
I would think under consumer laws you’d be entitled to a refund from OzGameShop. Contact them asap.
Oh they’ve offered, most of the places affected have but I’m hoping they’ll still be able to get the keys for me
Fingers crossed! Sounds very frustrating.
I’m off to bed.
Goodnight.
New trailer for Space Hulk: Deathwing
By The Emperor they’d better not screw this up now that they’ve finally gotten the right chapter to base a game around!
I’m curious.
So this is an FPS version of the board game or completely different?
FPS version of the board game.
Could be pretty tense and pants crappingly terrifying if they do it right.
Which they won’t. It will be solid but not great like most 40k games.
Now, now don’t be like that! Not ALL 40K games are solid, some were simply shit.
I’m watching Pyrean play pirates creed on the xbone. I was tempted to give in and buy it if it’s still cheap on steam but then I watched more of the mechanics for capturing ships.
“You shoot them until they catch fire, that’s our chance to board her!”
Nooooononononononono. I’m willing to ignore the fact that all the sailing ships are motor powered because I admit that wind mechanics can be very tedious. It’s somewhat frustrating that firing non-heated shot at a ship somehow magically cause the ships to catch fire but then the game expects you to want to lay alongside the ship that’s rapidly turning into a conflagration? I’m currently living on a island made out of timber, cloth and gunpowder. No way am I willingly parking next to an inferno (and then climbing into it!)
It does look fun but I don’t think I could suspend that much disbelief I would be crying inside the entire time I was playing. Just like battlefield hardline.
In other news, spent a few more hours doing chocobo racing on FFX. Still no 0 seconds.
@FreezeSPreston got 0 seconds! By that I mean he got exactly 0 seconds and not less than 0, which meant it didn’t count as a success 😛
Never cried so much in my life.
Really? That has to be sanely frustrating.
I hope that doesn’t happen to me. I may break my Vita.
Wait, so FFX doesn’t reach the level of “unbelievable” but AssPirates does?
I think it’s because assPirates is going for that sorta realism feel while FFX is like fuck logic! Everyone can swim in a ball of water forever without needing air
Also, the pirate ship thing seems like a weird thing to single out. There’s so much more to pick up like the entire “non-animus” side of Assassin’s Creed Franchise which make no sense. =P
True, Pyrean and I were both complain about them still including all the animus stuff when all it does is break the immersion and mean you wander around doing nothing for ages.
And ColdCamV was right. The difference is FF is quite clearly a fantastical theme whilst Assassins creed feels like ti’s going for an alternate history.
It’s still very much a personal opinion. I have nothing against other people enjoying it. It probably doesn’t help I like tall ships so I’m probably a little bit more familiar with them then then the average person. Same way a doctor will find it harder to ignore the stuff they make up for story on a medical show.
OMG SHOVEL KNIGHT!
*runs off crying*
Steam sales! Payday 2 stands out also is space engineers any good at the moment?
I bought Space Engineer a while ago but was disappointed. The game multiplayer was extremely poorly optimised plus the game had a finite amount of resources available. They might have fixed it recently but I haven’t played it in a while.
I’ll stay clear of it then, wait for actually release or mine craft space..why isn’t that a thing anyway
Also, Transistor is my recommended buy this day. It’s my GOTY so far.
Yeah, i’m loving it so far. So beautiful. Plays incredibly well. Just pure fun. 🙂
Pretty music. Love the shift when you switch to combat planning and she starts humming.
Not in love with the narrator, this time.
I like how it’s more conversational and the way they’re involved in the story is cool too.
Bastion was just plain iconic, though.
Looks pretty cool, tis on my $10 list tho so maybe next sale.
MQFT:
Yes or No?
Yes.
MQ KFC Time it is!
P
For Popcorn Chicken
R
For Regret.
N
For None whatsoever
So as you guys know, I cosplay quite a bit. Loads of people in the cosplay community I’m part of are making fan pages, some only cosplaying twice yet I don’t think anyone wants to see my stuff enough for me to warrant one. I don’t think anyone would be a fan of my stuff. Maybe I’m just weird, or unworthy, or both.
Your Elizabeth was pretty good as was the…. Cat…. thing… Whatever it was. I don’t what it was but it looked cool. As in great. Not opposite of hot. Looked opposite of that. Not cool.
Thanks, I think? I’m pretty confused
It’s a Taokaka from the BlazBlue fighting games. Never played any, but from what I gather, they’re a simple-minded race of imperfect clones or something. Again, never played it, but that’s what I gathered. Should probably give the games a spin.
Do you cosplay for the fun of it or for attention?
I assume the former so while a page might be useful to show off your stuff to friends, a lack of one does not mean you are unworthy or anything, just that you don’t have a burning need for the approval of strangers.
#my2c
I think that’s possibly the case. Could also be that when I look at my cosplays I only ever see the flaws. It’s a complicated topic /o\
Well, on one hand, it’s always good to never think too highly of yourself. Many who do see no incentive to improve (or accept criticism).
However, it’s not good to question your validity to the point where you self-deprecate and think of yourself as worthless. I know what it’s like! But that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t self-criticize at all. It’s all about the middle ground when it comes to things like this.
Holy crap, you’re posting on tay?!
I’m exactly as surprised as you are.
I prefer to lurk discussion websites though, what with the anxiety thing and all.
You should post more.
Unless you’re me, and it’s totally justified. 🙂
Personally, I reckon @scree should set up a cosplay page just to serve as a portfolio of sorts, image gallery for personal remembrances, and as an almost instructional page for others who are looking for realistic ways around certain sewing challenges.
I don’t even know how I’d do that. I mean, yes I do help people but I’m terrible at tutorials.
I think.
Why don’t you think people would be interested in your cosplays? What particularly makes you think people would choose looking at other cosplays over yours?
Because they have an inherent feeling that something isn’t quite right when they look at mine?
Whereas when you look at other people’s, there are no inherent feelings. The flaws are glaringly obvious 😛
But yeah, don’t worry about whether they’ll like it or not. You shouldn’t be making a page for them, you should be making it for you. Let other people decide if they’re interested or not, you don’t have to make that decision for them (cc @dc :P).
Maybe I’ll make it later.
Scree’s cosplays, watch as one person slowly loses her mind over the little details no one cares about
It’s ok to be proud of something you’ve made yourself. It’s easy to say that “you’re not as good as x”, or” it would be perfect but y”. But your cosplay is your own, and the process of making and wearing it is all part of the fun. If you want to share the process of making your costumes, and you in the finished product, go right ahead – you’ll find plenty of people who will love seeing your work. I know I would 🙂
I am terrible at taking photos. Probably will do for the Elsa one as it’s the most complicated
That doesn’t matter – I take photos for my blog on my phone 🙂
@evilmonkey just gifted me Limbo! WHAT A GUY! 😀 THANKS BUDDY!
@evilmonkey you glorious bastard! You too damn kind!
2 games? really…
Fine, I’ll be going home (Gone Home) and walk the dead! (The Walking Dead Season 1)!
BEST GAMES.
Now I just have to figure out what to get freeze, he doesn’t have anything left on his wishlist.
one of EVERYTHING 😛
What happens when 2 guys start playing Saints Row IV after watching 1 too many episodes of DBZ Abridged…
Nothing 😛
Rize later removed his beard entirely to look more… Vegeta…
I still need to work on Nappa’s costume a bit but overall it was insanely hilarious!
Vegeeeta…vegeeeeeta…Im a ghost
oh god the quotes were flying last night i can tell you 😛
Tune in on TS later tonight to listen to 2 drunken guys spewing quotes non-stop XD
Haha, that’s really well done. Although @rize definitely needs to lose the beard.
Yeah that ended up being the end result XD
The super powers just work a bit too well, it’s like the Saiyans where meant to be in it!
Also Nolan North’s voice at -40 pitch means almost Nappa voice 😛
Something something Vegeta is short something something @rize.
We were completely bummed that you can’t alter the height of the character at all in the game XD
Hey, if I was skinnier I’d be cosplaying as Vegeta to PAX this year…
Motivation to get skinnier \o/? 😛
It is, but I doubt it’s enough to combat my inherent laziness.
It’s more the crotch area that would concern me. Is too much bulging out? Not enough? Can you see a pulse? Is it a weird shape?
http://i.imgur.com/bi02PJH.jpg
Incase anyone is interested, Shadow Warrior is very, very average. I grabbed it for $9 during the steam sales and would not advise people to get it. It’s not that I disliked it, it’s just so very average.
Mark of the ninja is better?
Mark of the Ninja is an utterly different game. Shadow Warrior’s a remake of an old stupid 3D Realms game on the Duke Nukem 3D engine.
@sernobulus I assume they must have toned down the racism?
A little bit.
While both are very different games, Mark of the Ninja is way more fun.
I recently got the old one and had a play around with it. It was enough to scratch the itch and come to terms with the fact there was probably no point buying the new one.
Good to have confirmation though.
So NIS America won’t be shipping their stuff to us in Australia any more because they’re setting up an EU store.
Which would be fine, except that this means you can’t buy their anime releases (some of them are exclusive to them) and you end up with PAL-region games. I went all US region for stuff whenever possible years ago. 🙁
This also probably means we’re going to be locked into ridiculous EU pricing where you pay 20% extra Tax and shit as well, if we want those LEs now.
@doc_what since I think you order NISA’s LE releases sometimes.
Also @nightflarer ?
Will this NISA EU store ship to Australia? Don’t tell me it’s the only way to get the Persona Q CE -__-
The mail-forwarding trick should work with their American store but would probably end up costing the same when all the shipping costs add up.
The EU one will, yeah.
I expect we’re going to get utterly fucked over for pricing. Probably have to pay in Pounds or Euros, with the crazy VAT added on so $70-80 USD CEs will suddenly be 80 euro which is like $115. And then shipping will probably be just as expensive from Europe. So basically we’re screwed 🙁
;_;
Back from my nose operation. Wasn’t nearly as bad as I expected it to be. I have half a mind that the doctors played ping pong whilst I was under anesthetic. I was told to expect constant nosebleeds. Hasn’t happened yet. I was warned that when I awoke from anesthetic, I would have cotton shoved up my nose because science. Didn’t happen.
In fact, my nose feels exactly the same as it did when I started.
I did learn one thing though; hospital gowns suck. At least this didn’t happen to me.
Hopefully when it’s all healed it will feel much better! Glad it all went smoothly.
No headbutting folk for a few weeks. The bleeding stuff might not kick in for a day or 2
Hey peeples,
Is it possible to copy the files for a Steam game from one account’s PC to another? (assuming both accounts have the game purchased)
I’m reaching my data limit so I’m just wondering if I can just get the game files from my friend’s computer and have it work on mine (so I don’t have to download it).
Cheeeeeeeeeeeerio
Should be able to do the whole “Copy from steamapps/common/[GAME NAME]” folder thing, and then when it goes to install it, it should go “OH HERE IT IS!” and then use the files… or use the backup/restore feature
My internet was capped today too. :'(
Oh well, atleast I have 700 games to occupy myself with.
NOT ENOUGH \o/ 😛
Don’t worry, you don’t need a fast internet connection to buy games. =P
I haven’t gone over but I’ll get close to it if I try to download these games!
I’ve downloaded EVERYTHING. :S So many things. Luckily it uncaps on Tuesday.
Mines 3 weeks away 😛
D: OH MAN!
I set Dragon Age to download at 3am as I was going to bed so it would download during my ridiculously small “off peak” window.
I remember when off-peak was midnight to 10am. Then they realised “uh oh, people sometimes stay up after midnight! Let’s push it to 1am! Also they might download stuff before they leave for work! Let’s bring it back to 9am. Uh oh, people are still finding ways to download stuff and not have it count against their peak usage! Better make it 2:30am-8:30am because apparently “peak” downloads happen THREE QUARTERS OF THE FUCKING DAY NOW.
So I downloaded it at 3am, it was done when I got up at 7, and TPG STILL FUCKING ALLOCATED IT TO MY PEAK INSTEAD OF OFF-PEAK BECAUSE FUCK YOU, THAT’S WHY.
🙁 Aw, that’s too bad man.
There’s your problem.
Started it 2 seconds before 3am and the process counted as being in peak?
Either way, for both you and @greenius, google steamlimiter. It forces steam to download from your ISP based mirror (which SHOULD be free content) or not let it start at all. Handy when you’re down to the dregs of your allocation. It’s not 100% perfect but a hell of a lot better than trusting to luck.
Off-peak starts at 2:30am, I started the download at 3. :/
I’m not hurting for data cap right now, it’s just annoying that they keep arbitrarily shrinking the “off peak” time when half my download cap I’m paying for can be used (since apparently it’s ok to have half my data only be available one quarter of the time!) but when I do try to perform big downloads during that time, it doesn’t count it properly!
Heh I’m on netspace, that’s been my reality for 5 years. I remember the old days when “off peak” included the entire damned weekend…
Steamlimiter is still worth trying, just to use free data if you can
Yeah, I’ve done it so that I could play games while housesitting. This was before they allowed you to set install locations, so you’d just do the backup thing, then copy it into the equivalent place on the other computer. It doesn’t register it immediately, but if you go to “download” it, it’ll dance for a little while, realise the files are there, and then just validate.
Works fine as long as it’s not a Valve game, for some reason 🙂
Yeah you can copy directly from the common apps folder
Or if size is an issue just backup and then you should get a file you just double click to install on your PC
Just got my car bogged >.< I’m gonna be stuck for awhile
:S Future amusing story to tell, atleast?
Hope you’re not stuck for too long, buddy.
Was stuck over night, it was at a friends 21st and I parked in the muddiest part of their yard. Safe to say the next day we had to get the birthday girls family to tow us out atleast we weren’t the only ones but we were the last to get towed out
Excuse to stay and drink, though?
It was, but im sick 🙁 so didnt get to drink, did smash through a good 3 litres of water but \o/
HOORAY FOR WATER! 😀
HYDRATED! \o/
May have gone out and bought a pair of Hail-fires from Big W today.
Also Kirby.
Also, I can feel my nose and throat starting to go. Sickness inbound! 🙁
This is what I get for leaving the house…
Hey is there any game anyone wants in a flash sale? I can make it happen. All I have to do is buy it and it will be a flash sale in one or two cycles…
*punches nearest puppy*
Buy yourself Shovel Knight 😀
Sam & Max games would be nice for cheap 😛
I just want to gift stuff from my inventory using the mobile app. Bought a 4-pack and it won’t let me gift the other copies.
S’pose I’ll just have to wait till I get home about 9:30pm.
Get RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 as a treat for yourself! \o/
Why are you punching puppies?
This just makes me want some KFC..
How’s that KFC regret going @greenius?
Worth it!
Sore throat gone.
Sore lungs instead. Ugh, go away cold.
Upside: My toile (otherwise known as a practise piece) fits me! Well, the body does but the sleeves are slightly off. Good news I might be able to alter the pattern directly rather then on the computer. Makes it a bit easier and I have a little more control
I just bought Smash Bros. Melee…
and a second Gamecube Controller…
Yay?
YAY!
\o/
Deadly Premonition…
Wut.
Dafuq am I playing?
Yes.
But in all seriousness, I’ve played the intro, and I do not understand anything. It’s good. Really should get back to it.
I played like 5 minutes and wasn’t sure if I was supposed to be scared or not. It’s so weird!
I can’t wait to play it
Deadly Premonition is the Bee’s knees. Using a guide is a good way to go with that game. Doing I think it was two random side quests make the next 15-20 hours much more manageable.
Heal me, honey lemon ginger!
Especially you, fancypants manuka honey.
Manuka honey so good.
Where am I at with my life?
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=277533274
If it makes you feel better, I’m sitting here looking at different coloured blues.
Get out.
it’s for Elsa’s cape
Could be worse have you ever been to dulux to look for white paint? Forget about it!
I know, there’s 60 white paints, all a slightly different shades
Yahh, try going in with a white paint sample and try and get it matched, it takes a good 45 minutes to find out its Antique White USA quater strength…UGHHHH
I thought they had paint match?
They do, but when it comes to matching whites its always a pain in the ass, specially when its a certain percentage strength
I use 100%. Makes everything easy
@scree your one of the good ones 😀
What a gyp! I thought I was only half way through Deponia and the credits started rolling! I want my money back, @dc! 😛
Deja vu!!
EDIT: Did you like it?
I saw you got your eye on The Night of the Rabbit too! It’s cool but I liked Deponia more 😀
I liked that Rufus was a loveable douchebag.
Chaos on Deponia and Goodbye Deponia are more like second and third chapters of the same story more than sequels. 😀
Games these days! Always taking bits out to sell back to you later!
Haha, they all kiiiiind of stand on their own. Maybe.
Nah, it was good. Just would’ve preferred it not to end on SUCH a big cliffhanger 😛
I mean… what happened to those poor kitties that I drugged? What happened to them!?
How did you go with the explosion puzzle. I wanted to smash my computer at one point with that.
Spoiler tags just in case
You mean the thing with the magnets on the board? Actually, I got extremely lucky and managed to get one of the three guys out of the Town Hall when I was just messing around. They then said something about him checking his house after an alarm, so it was obvious what I needed to do 😛The one I had most trouble with was the making-the-espresso thing…
Also
@dc<3Wendell4eva
*shudders at tutorial that started that game with me hating the character*
Rufus is a complete dick and his girlfriend was absolutely justified in dumping him.
So Soundwave is now a 2 day festival, score!
Two day the good kind or the bad kind?
In my opinion, it’s good! Cause it’ll be the same amount of bands but split up over 2 days, so longer set times fewer clashes!
I also like that the 2 day ticket price is no more than what a ticket to Soundwave has cost in the past, and single day tickets are also a reasonable price at 130 with booking.
The most interesting part is the festival happens over 2 weekends nationwide so Sydney & Brisbane one weekend and Melbourne & Adelaide the next weekend, so it’ll be one line up plays Brisbane on Saturday and then the next day they play Sydney and Sydney’s Saturday line up plays Brisbane Sunday, to me sounds like a good plan.
Also Sidewaves will happen in between with each city getting Sidewaves, but there won’t be as many apparently..
And now Brisbane & Sydney are the final leg of the tour, so Adelaide doesn’t clash with the Clipsal 500 which apparently was hurting Soundwave, another good move.
Is it still at the festival grounds?
I was gonna say the one reason I didnt go to Stereosonic last year was due to it being over two days with no option for camping or accomodation so you were basically trudging your way into the city on the second day hungover from the first which is why alot of people were selling their second day tickets as just didnt want to go for a second day.
Hopefully it wont happen to Soundwave and its organised correctly
They haven’t announced where it’ll be held but i’m gonna assume the likely places, RNA Showgrounds, Olympic Stadium, Flemington Showgrounds and wherever they hold Adelaide SW lol. I wouldn’t hold my breath for camping, I mean if they could secure a place where there was a massive amount of land that would allow then I reckon we’d see camping but yeah doubtful.
Actually Soundwave *just* announced more details and venues;
The usual venues, Brisbane RNA Showgrounds, Sydney’s Olympic Park, Melbourne Flemington Racecourse & Adelaide Bonython Park
and no camping by the looks.
Soundwave Festival 2015 will be held over 2 days in each city – Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney & Brisbane. Half the bands play day one. The other half play day two. They criss-cross Saturday/Sunday in each city.
Adelaide & Melbourne will be the 1st weekend of the festival. The dates for these two cities are Saturday 21 and Sunday 22 of February.
Sydney and Brisbane will be the 2nd weekend of the festival; held over Saturday 28 February and Sunday 1 March.
The ticket price for the 2 days will be the same as last year. $185 + booking fees. These will be limited in number. There will also be a number of day tickets available at $120 + booking fees.
We are hoping that offering day tickets will make the festival experience available to those who may not be able to afford weekend tickets. Putting the line-up across 2 days enables us to minimise clashes; give bands longer sets, better staging, production & infrastructure. We are also hoping that this will give fans better value for money and a less stressful day
The entire lineup will be announced at once and weekend tickets will then go on sale. The lineup will then be split into individual days when day tickets go on sale.
In recent years we have lost great bands over too many bands wanting to play after dark. This new set-up also gives us twice the dark!
It’s a sad day.
A sad, sad day.
http://shanewsmith.com
🙁
Shit man, that really sucks, hope everything works out.
Damn dude, it was supposed to be lesser evils!
🙁
That sucks man im sorry 🙁
Attention cosplaying types (@scree?)
The Wig Outlet is having a super sale and it might be a good time to nab an awesome wig, They have loads of anime ones and heat resistant ones too. Also, they’re in australia so you don’t have to wait weeks for delivery.
http://www.thewigoutlet.com.au/
Do they also cater to the genetically condemned gentleman?
I say your genetics are fine, my friend. You’re a hit with the women folk!
I didn’t hit anyone!
Um…sure!
http://www.thewigoutlet.com.au/troy-blonde-613-mens-fashion-wig/
I’ll take seven!
I need a specialised wig for my next cosplay
Stupid fucking Asus laptop. After having it for about a day and a half I had to take it back and have them reset it to factory settings because when I turned it on the screen would just flash as soon as I tried to click on anything. Then it worked ok for a couple of weeks, and all of a sudden had major browser problems. Decided to take care of it myself and did a clean install of Windows 8. All appeared to be fine, I used it this morning before I went to work, I come back from work, turn it on, log in, click desktop and I get the fucking flashing screen again. No matter how many times I shut down and reboot the same thing happens.
So now, I’m stuck using my old computer (again), I’m so fucking sick of this laptop, it’s an absolute pile of shit, I’ll be returning it first thing Monday and demanding a replacement, but a different brand, and I will never buy anything Asus ever again.
Yeah, they’ve gone downhill so far in the last decade. I remember when they were a good brand.
Before you take it back, you might be well served to do the product key removal steps here: http://superuser.com/questions/608865/how-do-i-deactivate-windows-8-pro just to make 100% sure no one dodgy can get your win8 key. Odds are extremely low but no harm in putting it back in trial mode since it’ll just be repaired and reimaged anyway
Cheers man, will do.
I’m finding it hard to tear myself away from UFO Aftermath. There’s always something new to research or develop! The world-building is also really good. Surprisingly good.
Just remember that if your nose starts bleeding, it’s not an alien weapon, it’s operation side effects
(probably)
Well we can’t rule out the possibility that @phlanispo had his nose done by aliens. There could be a chip in his brain right now!
One positive is that it if he’s drinking a glass of milk and in the process sees something so funny it makes the milk shoot out his nose, it may well come out as yoghurt…
Never even heard of it but now I know what your talking about in those massive posts, I thought you were talking about Xcom
The UFO trilogy (Aftermath, Aftershock, Afterlight) was created in the mid 2000s because there hadn’t been a new XCOM game in years. It distinguished from XCOM by it’s darker tone and world-building, real-time combat, and probably some other stuff. I dunno, I’ve never played an XCOM game, but I imagine it would be pretty similar.
And yeah, those posts I made were massive. I suppose I should be glad that the spoiler button is back.
God dammit Spelunky! Why are you so good and why am I so bad at you?
Nah dude, it’s super easy. I made it to the jungle on my 475th attempt.
Huh… i’m on attempt 499 and i’m still in the Mine level 1 XD
I’ve been trying to unlock the shortcut to the Ice Caves. I’ve made it there a few times but haven’t been able to get there with a shotgun to finish the tunnel off. Had some fantastic runs where I ended up with things like jetpack/shotgun but only 1 health on 2-4, you can guess how they ended.
Game is hard.
I made it to the tunnel man and gave him a grenade then died before finishing the next level and don’t have the shortcut. 🙁
If you check the wiki, you have to give the Tunnel Man three things to unlock each shortcut. I’ve only got the jungle shortcut so far and that’s with about 10 hours of play.
Jeez @evilmonkey have you even bought any games for yourself during these sales?!
Yeah, plenty. Enjoy man.
Also, @scree and @gorzilla, due to my laptop cracking the shits (see my above post) I had to log into Steam with my old computer. When I did it told me that my account had been compromised and I had to change passwords, so I did. Then it said that I can’t trade stuff for 30 days. So I’m really sorry guys, but now I can’t gift you those summer sale trading cards you needed. I’ll make it up to you another time guys, I promise.
Also, @negativezero, I bought you a copy of Broforce and due to the above situation it won’t let me gift it to you. So don’t buy it man, I’ve got a copy here for you, but I won’t be able to gift it to you for 30 days by the sounds of it. For some reason it let me gift the other four copies I bought through the phone app earlier in the day at work though.
Edit: It says I’ll be able to trade Broforce on the 15th of July, so I’ll do it as soon as it lets me.
But it came through fine on my end? Odd. Thanks bro!
That is odd, oh well, enjoy bro :p
All good
Oh man just tried out Blood Dragon on the RIft. I think the shortcomings of DK1 are quite possibly adding even more to the whole VHS-era aesthetic of the game. A few things are a little off though, and it’s taking me a lot longer to do things 😛 Also aiming is tricky without having a decoupled view. But it’s cool!
Idea!
Playing Sniper Elite V2.
Any takers?
This comment was lonely and I felt bad 🙁
But I saw a Robbaz vid yesterday where he shot Hitler in the testicle in V3! Looks like a fun series 😀
I would be if it wasn’t for the fact I literally finished it in coop on Thursday night
This won’t be co-op.
TDM, FFA, and Distance King.
Rifles & Pistols only, Force Respawn enabled.
Is that coop or multi? I’d say I’m keen but I fear my laptop would probably melt itself from the inside out Tryna play it
Multi.
Ill install tonight and see how well it runs, leave me up as a maybe
Yes! Finally got that 0.0 on FFX Chocobo race. I’m so happy right now. First ultimate weapon for this version. Yuna is probably next.
May the gods of RNG put balloons in all your paths!
Remember to grab the Sun Crest ASAP! (unless you want it blocked by one of the strongest bosses which totally prevents you from using Tidus for most of the end game :P)
I got past that by save scumming and repeatedly using Yojimbo on him. If you luck out he can one-hit any boss.
That may or may not be how I got past Dark Valefor after forgetting the Besaid Temple destruction sphere…
But that’s not fun… 😛
And it was my first time going for 100% so I wanted to get everything done legitimately.
Not much about the grind to get the ultimate weapons in FFX could ever be described as ‘fun’.
Soul-crushing frustration, yes. Fun, not so much.
1. Typing of the Dead Overkill is a pretty cool guy. Playing the original game with a mouse sucks badly however. The typing game is actually better.
2. Skullgirls is… odd. But seems cool. I’d probably enjoy it a lot more if I wasn’t attempting to play with a 360 controller. First time trying to play a fighter with one and it is SOOOOOOO DAMN BAD. Like beyond terrible.
I LOVE typing of the dead.
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Hori-Fighting-Stick-V3-for-PS3-Playstation-3-Like-New-/121367031201?pt=AU_Video_Game_Accessories&hash=item1c4209eda1&_uhb=1
Bam.
I was trying to play it with the keyboard the other day.
I went straight into the story mode. Got the first opponent down to 1/3 health before she killed me. Tried again. I got one hit on her before she killed me. Tried again. She killed me without me landing a hit.
Went to do training. I got stuck several times there just trying to do what it wanted.
I’m so bad at fighting games.
It looks fantastic but!
So apparently South Perth and the city of Victoria Park are merging, and I kid you not, the name they’ve decided upon is “the city of South Park”.
I’m still trying to decide whether the city counsellors are incredibly stupid, or incredibly awesome…
😀 They’ve probably never heard of it. 😛
Surely someone on the council would’ve been like, “hey, guys, South Parks that hell crude cartoon remember, just sayin’ “.
Like, someone had to have known about it, right?!
Still, now I want to move to South Park :3
Well, last I heard WA was 20 years behind the rest of the world, so South Park hasn’t even started airing there yet. 😛
Both?
I’m leaning towards stupid, but with awesome side effects of their stupidity.
You’d have to be pretty dumb to rename part of a capital city as South Park after all, hahaha! 😀
Trading cards, people! Trading cards! I have many! Get trading! See things you want to make sure you qualify for a badge today/any day? GET IN DERE! So far only a couple have, but you aaaaaallll caaaaan!
Need 1, 5 & 9. Everything else I have doubles and triples of.
I have sent ye the items. 🙂
Others should check, too!
Any chance I can get a 2, 6 and 7? I can’t offer anything in trade at the moment.
Yes
Sorry I missed the trade off but I’ve already bought the cards I needed anyway. I crafted some other sets and got rewards so if anyone needs a 7 before I sell it, let me know.
Ah, sorry I couldn’t do it sooner. I just got home.
No problem man, I was just being impatient! Also for some reason I thought the summer adventure badge was capped at level 5. I guess not!
I have an 8 and a 9 going free if anybody wants them
I’d like to level up again but all I have are 3, 4, 5, 8, 9 and 10. I don’t have any doubles at present, so I’m basically asking for charity.
I’m in need of 2, 6 and 10, because this sale is a massive JERK.
I already gave away my 6s and 10s, so I can only offer 2.
I don’t even know how to get Steam cards. My thing says I still haven’t got any 😛
You earn the free ones by going to the ‘badges’ section of your profile, then seeing which games you own that are eligible to earn badges/cards. You combine cards to make badges. It’ll say how many free card drops you’ve got left. Then, you just play that game until they all drop. When they do, you will still have cards left to collect – you can either buy them on the market or trade with friends. When you have a full set of cards, you craft them into a badge. The act of crafting a badge earns you a Summer Sale adventure card.
Ahh.
Eh. Couldn’t be bothered 😛
I’ve just been selling the game cards that have popped up!
In general or for the sale?
General – just play games that have them 😛 (Powalen – Badges) to see your list of eligible games.
Sale – spend $10 for one card and vote 3 times on the Community Vote for one card (if you’re level 8 or above). You also get them for crafting badges.
Back in my day we just played games!
A mate of dad’s told me about a job going out on Nauru and the mob it’s through the only way to find the listing is through searching for the region it is in which requires a post code, yeah Nauru doesn’t use post codes so I can’t actually obtain the job listing… Who ever did this is a fucking moron..
@negativezero @beavwa @strange @doc_what @sernobulus @jordi
Are you guys getting Tales of Xillia 2 at launch? I got Graces f, Xillia and Symphonia HD around launch but I only ended up playing/finishing Xillia and the other two are unplayed 😛
I enjoyed Xillia and know next to nothing about Xillia 2, but its Day One edition is pretty meh (no artbook? D:) so I might wait a bit depending on what you guys are doing. I know I’ll be even less motivated to play it without any buddies so I guess if lots of people are buying it then maybe I’ll give in to the launch hype.
…although by then I’ll be working so I may have money to waste, but also no time to play things 😛 UGH!
I’m undecided about it because I’m undecided about the game itself. Probably will buy. Really annoyed that all the copies come with a steelbook instead of a normal case. I need to buy AU/PAL so I can transfer stuff over from Xillia so even if the US is getting a plastic case I can’t buy it.
I really liked Xillia and want more of it, but I’m pretty concerned about the fact that the main character in X2 is apparently silent. Maybe he talks in skits? I dunno, it seems really bad design to me. Also the only other time I’ve played a Tales game that’s a sequel to another (technically Phantasia is a sequel to Symphonia but let’s not go into that) it was Dawn of the New World and it sucked tremendously.
I’m not feeling quite as hurried to play it as I was with Xillia, and it’s coming out in an expensive point of the year for me, so I’ll probably look to get it from OzGameShop instead of doing the usual thing and grabbing it at EB so I can have it day 1, unless I can get it cheaper.
Oh, I didn’t know save stuff could transfer so I guess I’ll get a PAL copy too. Ozgameshop’s price is very… average and was at $68 or so this morning. They did have a couple of discounts floating around though.
EDIT: I see you’ve already ordered it :D. Might do the same the next time they have a discount code.
I should really play Symphonia some more. I’ve played very little of it so far.
I was planning to play it at the start of the month but didn’t want to rush myself with Xillia 2 coming out soon. We can be buds when I play though!
In fact, ordered from OGS just now. Should get it about a week after release.
I haven’t played the first one yet. That makes the decision easier.
You should. It’s pretty good. Better than Graces in the plot department, by far. Not as good with the battle system though.
Man, I dunno, was Xillia good enough to warrant Xillia 2 hype?
I mean, it was enjoyable and a solid game, but personally not a great game enough for me to be interested in a day 1 full price copy.
Perhaps hype wasn’t the best word. I meant sort of like launch day activity where people are playing the game and discussions might be happening.
You’re right about Xillia though. A lot of Tales games are just “well it’s out so I guess I’ll play it” for me. Now I’m leaning towards not buying it :D. Lately the Tales games have decreased in price pretty significantly within months from launch and it doesn’t scream $60-80 to me.
I haven’t played any of the other Tales games yet.
Yes.
I will buy Xillia 2 at launch…..
So many games D:
I keep going backward and forward on Bravely Default. When I played it in December I was disappointed by it and eventually got bored and quit. Picked it up again for a bit a couple of weeks ago and was really enjoying it, but now I’m falling out of it again.
Just finished chapter 2.
One of the biggest things that’s irritating me at this point is the inconsistent tone and the way that the characters don’t seem to really have any development going on. In particular I did all the sidequests in this area and it involved brutally murdering a bunch of Edea’s former comrades because they’re bad. And she doesn’t seem particularly upset by it either. Obviously some of them are pretty evil and have it coming, but it doesn’t really seem to have affected anyone in the party. Plus they’re sidequests so completely optional anyway. Everyone seems to react appropriately at the time, but within 5 minutes they’re back to being all chipper and right back into their usual cardboard cutout personalities. It just feels incredibly superficial.I’m really, really not liking the ‘social’ stuff they hooked into the game. Those extra attacks feel necessary in some cases, like they’ve balanced the difficulty around them, but then having your friends linked when they’ve finished the game makes you game-breakingly overpowered. You have access to super high level skills and spells and stuff, so there’s no mysteries about what might come next. The town gives overpowered weapons which to be fair, usually are unaffordable, but seems like if you found a good grinding spot for cash you could easily get gear that would break the game.
I’m not finding I use a lot of strategy in the combat system. On paper it’s great, but because you have no idea when your guys are going to move and when the enemies will move, you can’t really plan ahead. It’s all reactionary, you can only respond to what just happened, you can’t anticipate and stop or counter an enemy. So it feels like you’re not really making particularly interesting choices. It also means for a lot of battles I’m just having everyone brave 4 times and attack and wiping most stuff out first round which isn’t really feeling that good.
Also the random battles are shitting me. I think it’s too regressive. It takes so long to get into the battles, and even a 1-round victory involves putting in a ton of commands and waiting for them all to execute and everything, and then I’ll often forget what I was doing and become disoriented upon re-entering the main exploration part of the game and start walking the wrong way or something. And then get attacked again once I realize and turn around. This in turn makes progressing in the game feel like wading through mud. It all feels so incredibly slow. I’ve spent nearly 20 hours with it and I’ve done 2 chapters of I think 8? So extrapolating, I’ve got 60 more hours of this to go? That doesn’t excite me at all.
Thing is, every now and then the game is clicking really solidly for me. It’s like there’s a really good game in there but stuff is actually pushing me away just often enough that the experience feels really lumpy. I’m not sure how much longer I’m going to spend with it, I think if I get bored and stop playing again, it might be the end for it.
The game’s really bad at explaining it, but if you hit… y? it will queue up whatever you last used in battle, so for grinding/travelling through about 2/3rds of the game, you can just queue up 4 attacks with Brave spam, then beat the crap out of everything’s faces.Personally, I think the boss fights are the highlight of the Brave/Default system, because it really does feel like all the battle in between are wastes of time/effort, but when you hit one of the good bosses who you can reliably default block or whatever, it works well.Also also, if you’re not enjoying what the story’s doing now, you are not going to like the shit it pulls later. It’s fucking bullshit.The Y thing doesn’t do what it says it should do. I’ve tried it.
You can just Brave 4 times on everyone and make them attack then hit Auto-Battle and it’ll remember that command for next time. I was pretty over the battles by the end of the game too and completely turned them off in the last few chapters (which meant I was severely underlevelled :/)
I think the whole game took me around 45 hours? So I don’t think you’ve got that much longer. The last few chapters are a lot shorter than the first half so I think 20 hours or so is about right for where you’re at.
That doesn’t work when I’ve tried it before. They do random shit and don’t brave like I was.
Then you’ve done it wrong :P. I don’t remember the exact commands for it but you have to be careful not to cancel the auto-battle and to only do it directly after the commands/turn you want (it will repeat that last turn over and over again).
If I recall correctly you can also do stuff like have someone Brave 4 times, someone use an item, someone Default 3 times (i.e. all different actions) and they’ll continue to do it until you stop. I don’t think I’m remembering it wrong if Blaggies said the same thing.
Yeah I tried it again and it works this time. Dunno why it wasn’t braving last time.
You can definitely do it. I remember just leaving it set to ‘everyone Brave/Attack 4 times’ and just walking around for an hour grinding while I watched TV 😛
The downside is that if, somehow, the enemy lives all 16 attacks, you’re basically screwed 😛 I got beaten up by a horde of cute little plant things because there were too many to kill D:
I liked the hordes of weak crap because you could sometimes get the bonus for killing them all on the same move. Which was fun.
Didn’t get a chance to say it yesterday, but THANKS @evilmonkey bro for broforce! now we can be super cool dude-bros while blowing up evil guys in the jungle!
I just finished Season 1 of The Walking Dead (but not 400 Days).
That ending…wow…it’s just such a good game. Highly reccomended.
Ben is the worst!GODDAMN BENS!=P@greenius @powalen @dc
Regarding him in game…
He wanted to die, so I let him. But then everybody hated me, and that was probably one of the decisions that stayed with me a long time aftwerards (still think about it). But he wasn’t really a help – and without him, the group would have had actual helpful people, so I let him go, let him go, couldn’t hold his hand anymore 😛A wise decision!
Ben is the best!SATANBLESS BENS!+dBen is the victim of bad writing. 😀Batman: Arkham Origins – Blackgate is surprisingly fun. It’s like Deadlight except with Batman. 😀
I’ve been curious about that but never seen anyone say anything about it. Nor seen it cheap enough to justify a curiosity purchase.
What’s a Deadlight? 😛
It’s currently $4.99 on Steam! 🙂
What’s Deadlight? Deadlights an awesome, awesome zombie platformer with a a cool visual style. (But terrible writing.)
http://store.steampowered.com/app/211400/
Pssh Steam 😛
Hey, you can’t argue with that price though. How much is it currently on 3DS/Vita?
The cost is more than just money!
I checked at Target on the weekend, they had it for $33 I think on 3DS.
MQFT!
U or S?
us!
A!
S, cause S is best 😛
Skullgirls wins! I’m going to try the story mode on some random character.
Guess whose sick as a dog and sore all over?
And guess whose dog has cracked the irrits because of said sickness?
Is it me? =D
Ryan Gosling?
So I downloaded and installed Prototype 2 last night, go to launch it today, just crashes to the desktop I think fair enough, so I run a file validation on it and Steam says a file is missing and reacquires it, still crashes to the desktop after. Man I just love PC gaming it’s so flawless and always works.
Opened up Steam to see if there was anything to play but it wanted to do updates and annoying stuff like that so I shut it down straight after.
My son then begged me to play Dark Souls 2 and Mr. Strange joined in with the begging so I started a new character. Named after the girl at my son’s school that every time she’s mentioned he says “I’m going to marry her when I grow up!”, and with turquoise hair and red eyes which he also chose.
Played for a couple of hours and wasn’t doing too badly but I really wasn’t feeling it.
Opened up GOG and checked out their sale and wondered why I’d bothered opening Steam at all. <3
Hey @greenius, how ’bout that Shovel Knight aye?
*runs off crying*
Phone update!
I went out and brought a Samsung galaxy S5 time to figure out what it does..on the side its definetely a thing..I dont know what kinda thing it is but it is one!
A button?
Your right! tell me more about this phone because seriously its scaring me
I’m pretty sure there’s just a volume rocker and sleep/wake button on the sides.
One of those things!
close. usually on/off is at the top, and volume is on side for galaxy’s
Nope 😛
Most Android flagships have them on side now to accommodate the bigger phones.
http://www.boeboer.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/samsung-galaxy-s5-sm-g900f-user-manual-keys-parts-device-layout.jpg
maybe it’s a different one I’m thinking of then. or maybe it was one of those phablet things. we refurb a lot of phones at work, and usually they’re a pita to restore if locked, cos you need to hold down buttons on multiple sides to get it going!
The earlier ones might’ve had it up the top but I know the S4 and S5 have it on the side (maybe S3?). I went from a 4S to the HTC One M8 and both have their sleep/wake buttons on the top. It wasn’t an issue on the iPhone since the phone is smaller and it’s easier to reach the button, but M8 is fairly big and that button is just out of the way. One of my few complaints with my current phone 😛
The new iPhones are moving it to the side too!
Both the S5 as well as the Galaxy Note 3 have it on the side
I’ve decided to sell my PS2 on eBay.
It’s had a good run, but if I can get $50-100 for it, I’ll be happy.
@sernobulus
Shovel Knight! So good 😀
I’m actually trying not to play it too much because I don’t want it to be over 😛
Same!
I emailed the devs and they sent me a free steam copy and said when Australia finally gets a WiiU version I will still get one! \o/
WiiU version?
Good Yacht devs! Did they say why it wasn’t out on the eShop for Australia? Good to hear it’s still coming and not just cancelled for our region.
Sounds like they are trying to get it on the AU/EU Nintendo Estore.
Australia could still miss out and only EU would get it (Shantae, where art thou?) but this seems pretty big so hopefully not :D. Might even rebuy it so I can play it in bed! (@powalen :P)
Why not just make a UK account? I had to and it’s pretty easy.
You can’t anymore since they implemented Nintendo IDs.
really? But I’m still able to swap between Mum’s account and mine on my Wii U. My account is aussie and Mums is the English
Oh, I was referring to the 3DS eShop. Pretty sure you can’t swap between regions on one account anymore. People did that to buy Shantae and VVVVVV before Australia got them.
So wait, is this on Wii U or 3DS I’m confused
Both! 😀
…just in America only for now :(. PC for everyone though!
Playing with a controller or keyboard? I’m staying at my sisters, brought my controller but not part of the adapter so got stuck using the keyboard, which I’m not very good at, so I struggled my way through the tutorial and decided to wait to keep playing. 😛
Used a controller from the start and everything has been perfect!
I’m using controller. It’s much easier with one IMO.
Page 18!
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Penis.
You just had to cock that up, didn’t you? 😛
Also just a general update for my weekend.
On Friday night I downloaded Valiant Hearts and Torchlight 2 and started torchlight 2 had fun with that, Cathryn’s friend stayed over the night and they watched movies so I was free to play games until I fell asleep on the couch. I also watched an episode of The Blacklist.
Saturday morning I played abit more of Torchlight 2 aswell as brought and installed Minecraft, I got killed by a skeleton, took revenge on a cow then built a wood tube to hide in when it went dark as I remember someone saying that thats a thing to do. After that Cathryn and I went to one of her friends 21st up in Eildon, safe to say that with melbournes weather it was a muddy mess and naturally our car got bogged along with 5 others which wasnt fun and so we got towed out in the morning as the only ones with vehicles who could tow were white girl wasted at the time.
Sunday morning we unbogged the car and set off for home, arrived home and then ducked out to the shops to buy myself a new phone and ended up getting hair dye to dye a friends hair red, now, ive never used peroxide and never claimed I knew how to, but she insisted on me doing her hair so I did, she wanted to go red, I dont know what colour it is but dammit its close enough to red for me!
Tldr; I did things this weekend
Sunday climbing sucks. It’s all quiet and there’s no one around to talk to at all. At least I got in on mate’s rates this time 😛
Also, TURTLE POWER!
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Sometimes I hate full time work. I feel like I haven’t been able to comment on here in ages. Sure a few ones slip through here and there, but for the most part I have been so out of the loop. And I’m sure posting on Sunday night is really going to help my situation…. Yay for logic \o/
So thanks to the results of a MQFT, I’ve started playing Far Cry 3 in the last few days. Honestly not feeling it yet. Granted I’m only a few hours in, I just went and sbhaq gur qbpgbe ba gur uvyy jub frag zr sbe zhfuebbzf gb urny zl sevraq. I think I need to give it a bit more time before I write it off completely. But at the moment… yeah, it hasn’t grabbed me. Maybe I need to go explore the island a bit more. Kill some animals, clear some outposts etc. Let the map open up a bit.
In other news, I am finally caught up on Doctor Who. Finished Series 7 and the associated specials earlier today. Opinions and spoilers below:
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Spoiler tags work now.Show’s how long I’ve been out of the picture
Hey look! It’s that guy who does that thing! Wassisname!
Novahkiin, Driverborn!
Hey @novacascade, can I get a lift to Osaka?
Sure you can. It’ll cost you though
Nintendo fans, help me talk @gorzilla into buying a Wii U
Do it @gorzilla, all that Mario Kart!!
Yeah @gorzilla
DOOOO EEEEET!!!
Wow, @evilmonkey, thanks for Strike Vector! I thought your budget was exceeded half a week ago, though?
It was, but then I got paid again, so here we are. hope you enjoy the game dude.
Edit: I gave a copy to @scree and @gorzilla too.
MultiTAYer!
So damn generous.
PS: Really digging ACIV, so thanks for that!
Glad to hear it man, so disappointed you’re not on Steam, I would’ve totally gifted you some stuff.
Also, I’m really sorry man, I just haven’t had time to go into K-Mart, but I’ve got the day off tomorrow, so I’ll do it then. Hopefully I’ll have some luck.
So at Dinner my Mother made her vaguely frequent threat to medicate me (as a Doctor, medication is of course her first port of call when anything’s not right mentally), and I asked her if she thought it would be better if I spent half my life as a drugged up zombie.
She responded in the affirmative. :/
🙁
I’m pretty sure my mothers reply would have been along the lines “At least zombies have some motivation, even if it’s just BRAINS!!!”
@dc, I just couldn’t wait till the last day of the sale to buy Valiant Hearts. Ended up buying it today, but it was kinda pointless to do that because my laptop’s out of action till at least tomorrow, and I’m pretty sure my old PC isn’t good enough to run it. Oh well, at least I have it I s’pose, that’s…… something.
How is it, still awesome? You finished it yet?
Also, does anyone know what the deal is with Broken Sword on Steam? I bought Broken Sword 1,2,3 and 5, but I can’t find 4 anywhere on Steam, why is that?
Because you touch yourself at night.
Yeah, but that’s beside the point :p
I think it’s my game of the year so far. I finished it. 🙂
Here’s some of my crazed fanboy tweets:
Valiant Hearts. Beautiful. Awe-inspiring. Compelling. Confronting stuff. Totally made me cry. Exceptional game. Play it!
In all seriousness Valiant Hearts is the strongest example I’ve seen of a game tackling issues like the futility of war. Important stuff.
Thanks again, man. 🙂
Four is terrible. Don’t worry about not having four. 😛
You can get Broken Sword 4 on GOG, but I wouldn’t recommend it.
http://www.gog.com/game/broken_sword_4
Cheers, thanks man.
Also, also… give Valiant Hearts some time to win you over too. Only gets the better the longer it goes. At first I was like, this is pretty damn good but near the end I was like AMAAAAAZING.
No worries man, glad to hear you enjoyed it so much.
I don’t care how crap Broken Sword 4 is, not having the complete set of all 5 games will just do my head in :s
I’m sure Charles Cecil and Revolution are glad it’s not there to contaminate the series any more. 😛
Now attempting to investigate the viability of keeping Monday climbings. That would likely involve driving through a lot of morning traffics though. Bleh.
Woah, I realised I’d never craft the Steam Sale badge, so I decided to sell my three cards. I sold them INSTANTLY. As soon as I pressed ‘confirm,’ money was added. Now I have $1.34 in my Steam Wallet! I can buy something!
\o/
No, I cannot buy anything for $1.34.
/O\
I’ll buy you something when all my cards sell then.
You could have bought the blood pack for Total War Rome 2 or Shogun 2 for $1.01 whilst it was on sale. Probably would mean you’d also have to buy the base game though.
So I preordered The Witcher 3 on GoG. Got a discount from them because I own the first two games, which made the price merely unfair, instead of ludicrous.
As a result, I have been given two utterly fucking useless codes to ‘make up’ the difference. Except they don’t. They aren’t useable to give you like $9.95 credit or anything, they give you two free games from them up to the value of that credit.
There’s a sale going on with them right now and there are bundles I’d consider buying, but I can’t use the codes for them, only for single games. Such complete bullshit.
Also got a code for a free copy of Neverwinter Nights. But they gave me a code for a free copy of that back when I ordered the previous Witcher so that’s useless as well.
Instant buyers remorse.
Let this be a warning to anyone that is considering buying The Witcher 3 on GOG.
When they say they’ll give you the difference back, and say “Since the price in your region is almost $19.98 higher than in the US, we’re giving you $19.98 back (~A$21.78) in bonus codes to get free classic games from GOG.com” they’re actually being incredibly misleading.
You’re not getting $20 USD credit. You’re not getting vouchers for credit.
You get two codes that allow you to “Redeem a game up to the price of $9.99 for FREE”. So two free games up to the value of $10 each.
Very, very different to how they make it out on the site, and I think it’s bullshit. Sours me toward them quite a bit, which I doubt was their intention with it. I’d have rather it said “You’re paying $20 more than the US and it’s bullshit but we can’t do anything so deal with it or buy elsewhere” because I’d have gone and done exactly that. No doubt I could have gotten the game for $40-50 elsewhere around launch (instead of $72 – and that’s with a 20% discount for owning the first two games!), I just wanted to support the developer.
I usually just wait until the first steam sale for these kinds of things. They usually end up being about the standard US price then. It still drives me insane that we have to pay regional pricing on steam when everything is paid for in $US anyway.
They could just give you nothing and tell you “tough luck” instead.
Yeah, and if they’d done that I’d have known to take my money elsewhere and wouldn’t have been as upset.